Fellow Steemians,
it is time to introduce myself: I am a young plant scientist, currently doing a PhD in biochemistry. As my profile says, I am truly a plant freak as I love everything about them. From dry classification, appearance, behaviour to metabolites and biochemical pathways. Furthermore I enjoy technology a lot, especially building stuff! Furthermore I am a Gridcoin enthusiast (cryptocurrency that „mines“ through helping science) and computer geek. Besides all this, as contrast, I like to involve myself in art, music and especially theatre. All the world‘s a stage!
My picture is taken at the place where I spend the most time at the moment – the lab:
After a good month on steemit, I have to say I am still fascinated - by the community, the system, the plattform! While some of the continiously spawning content is of a lesser quality than one would desire, much of it provides decent quality in research and writing and from time to time one can find those rare gems.
Those rare gems that leave you with a sense of awe, appreciation and gratitude that this particular user got the possibility to share even that one story, picture, advise or artwork, that without steem would maybe have never seen the light of day. Besides its one-of-a-kind system to reward authors and curators alike for their provided content, steemit empowers those that are often overlooked, or those, who can not or want not to spend hours and hours to build a blog, collecting followers. You can write a single post you always wanted to write, share what you wanted to share, and have it seen by a welcoming and generous community. While a great exposure in many cases feels quite great, even lesser views but maybe a inspiring chat about your story creates a feeling of appreciation. Empowerment to those who often stay behind, those thinkers, who would never try to force an opinion on you but overjoyously share when asked. For me, the money aspect is a ingenious way for those who are trying to make a living from creating quality content, or those curating and helping the plattform to provide high content quality.
Nevertheless, bearing everything I like about those „rare gems“ I mentioned in mind, there are a few things that I would like to pledge, to make my steemit-journey useful and beneficial for others as well as myself:
I will research and prepare my content to my best ability.
I will not tolerate abusive behaviour nor will I engage in it.
I will try to create in a way that benefits and delights.
With this in mind, I am looking forward to a wonderful time on steemit!
PS.: I already posted a project proposal to breed plants at home, in a distributed manner. With many people joining, we could split the work, everybody grows just a few plants, but in the end we might end up with a new variety! If you are interested just check my profile, or the tag I created for the project: #plantbreedingathome
:)
Dysprosium
Hallo liebe Steemit-Community,
Es wird Zeit dass ich mich vorstelle: Ich bin angehender Pflanzenwissenschaftler, gerade am promovieren. Wie mein Profil auch sagt bin ich Pflanzenenthusiast; ich mag alles von trockener Klassifikation über Aussehen und Verhalten der Pflanzen, bis hin zu Inhaltsstoffen und biochemischen Stoffwechselwegen. Zudem liebe ich alles was mit Technik zu tun hat, am liebsten ist es mir selbst etwas zu bauen! Auch Cryptowährungen sind ein Hobby von mir, vor allem Gridcoin, eine Währung, die über Berechnungen für wissenschaftliche Projekte „gemined“ wird, statt leeren Hashs. Als Kontrast interessiere ich mich für Kunst (deutsche Romantik à la Caspar David Friedrich), Musik und vor allem Theater!
Das oben gezeigte Bild ist von dem Ort an dem ich iom Moment am meisten Zeit verbringe – dem Labor.
Zuerst: Da ich Beiträge wechselnd in Deutsch oder Englisch schreibe, kann es sein dass die jeweilige Übersetzung etwas anders ist als eine direkte Übersetzung wäre. Da ich in unterschiedlichen Sprachen verschieden denke und ein anderes Sprachgefühl besitze, würde eine direkte Übersetzung dem Ganzen nicht gerecht, daher wundert euch nicht, wenn die verschieden Sprachen eine leicht unterschiedliche Struktur besitzen!
Seit ich (vor ca. einem Monat) auf Steemit gestossen bin, habe ich sehr viele positive Erfahrungen gemacht. Die Community ist wunderbar, und der immerneue Inhalt oft atmeberaubend. Sicherlich nicht jeder Beitrag, aber ab und an findet man versteckte Juwelen, die inhaltlich und sprachlich brillieren. Zudem finde ich wunderbar dass jene Leute ermutigt werden, die sonst eventuell ungehört blieben. Nicht jeder hat Zeit und Muße mühsam einen Blog aufzubauen nur weil man gerne das ein oder andere sagen möchte. Steemit erleichtert dies immens, und so bekommen auch die oft Übersehenen Möglichkeit und Stimme. Vielen Dank, Steemit!
Doch damit das bereits hohe Maß an Qualität von mir erreicht und gewahrt werden kann, habe ich mir drei Dinge vorgenommen:
Ich werde ausschließlich wohlrecherchierte und gut aufbereitete Inhalte veröffentlichen.
Ich werde beleidigendes Verhalten weder tolerieren noch ausüben.
Ich werde versuchen meine Inhalte so zu gestalten, dass sie nützlich und angenehm sind.
Und damit sollte es für uns alle eine tolle Erfahrung werden!
PS.: Ich habe bereits ein Projekt gestartet, das noch Teilnehmer sucht: Gemeinsam eine neuen Gemüsesorte züchten, verteilt, von Zuhause aus! Gemeinsam hat jeder wenig Arbeit und ihr bekommt eine Einführung in Pflanzenzüchtung von mir. Bei Interesse könnt ihr in meinem Profil den ersten Beitrag dazu finden, alternativ unter dem „tag“ plantbreedingathome (tag mit Link am Ende der englischen Version oder unten in der "tag"-Liste)
Dysprosium
Welcome to Steemit @dysprosium. Is that a plant name btw., sounds plantish:)
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Hey janusface,
the name is actually a rare element, dysprosium is used in e.g. special magnets or generators. But there is really not much of the metal available, the yearly production is about 100 metric tonnes. :)
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Welcome - I enjoyed your 'proper' introduction! Great to see another PhD candidate on the platform. =)
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Hey dutch,
thank you! Brothers in suffering to achieve a PhD... ;)
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Thats right, we need lot of research, to discover Steem more.
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Gridcoin community welcomes another scientist and PhD candidate :)
As usual, #gridcoin and #beyondbitcoin tags for quality Gridcoin content and those rewards will pour in...
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Hey vortac,
thank you for your welcome. I have seen your name/account quite some times lurking on reddit, steemit etc. and I am glad you put in the effort that you do! Let's make this great!
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This is truly remarkable.
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Welcome to Steemit!
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Thank you for the warm welcome!
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Hey dysprosium! Schön noch mehr wissenschaftlich orientierte User zu sehen :)
Solltest du näheren Kontakt zu der Science community hier suchen lade ich dich herzlich ein auf steemit.chat dem steemSTEM channel beizutreten. Ist zwar komplett englisch aber das sollte ja kein Problem darstellen :D
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Hallo @suesa,
gerne, vielen Dank! Und um genau zu sein, bin ich Dir da bereits zuvorgekommen, da ich gestern über steemSTEM gestolpert bin und noch Leute für das plantbreeding@home-Projekt suche! ;)
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Ah, dann war ich zu langsam :P
Pflanzen gehen bei mir leider konsequent ein (Gott sei Dank hab ich das Problem nicht bei meinen Hefestämmen im Labor) sonst würde ich teilnehmen :)
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welcome to our company :)
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Thank you all for your kind welcome! I will certainly enjoy my time here, and once I am settled in, I could maybe of help to steemSTEM? (@suesa)
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Just keep posting good science stuff and chat with us from time to time :) a good community is everything on steemit
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Hmm scientist do you take a diploma in computer science into that category as well ? Or is this more the nerdy part of science and iam out ? Schön dass du an Bord bist ! Gridcoin for the win !
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Vielen Dank! Mein Bereich ist wie gesagt die Biologie/Biochemie mit Fokus auf Pflanzen. Alles aus dem technischen Bereich ist Hobby und angelesen! Danke für die Begrüßung!
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Hi, a warm welcoming from a chemist and hope you enjoy the time here
Steemstem are holding a #sciencefair soon. Feel free to join if you have other interesting experiments to show :D
Details here
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Hey mcw,
saw that post already, I am still thinking about what to do to participate. As biochemist there is unfortunately less of the colourful, "magic" chemistry, and a lot "okay, I have put now this colourless liquid into another tube with colourless liquid, let's wait 4h and see what has happened - o yeah, three bands on a gel instead of 2!". ;)
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There are still lots of fun with science around and its definitely not necessarily to be biochemistry related :) Just share science you feel facinating and try go one step further and i bet everyone will enjoy it too !!
No worry, I am not planning to do any colorful chemistry stuff for the science fair as a self challenge XDD
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Welcome to steemit @dysprosium!
Although I'm more into fungi than into plants, I'm looking forward to reading more post by you.
Glad to have another scientist on board!
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Hey fabuslousfungi,
your nickname is awesome! xD Although I work with fungi as well, my aim is to enable the plant to kill them, rather then growing them... ;)
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Fungi and plants can be friends too. I'm really interested in the role of endophytic fungi in plant growth and defense.
I'm curious about the story behind your nickname. Why did you pick a chemical element?
Apparently the literal translation of it is "hard to get", interesting!
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Nice observation, the name! :) I love puns and hidden references, so there are many meanings. First of all: Why a chemical element? The obvious is my profession as a biochemist, the rarity (hard to get) a hint that is either precious or hidden, which both are qualities that many things that really interest me have in common. Furthermore I am a big fan of Tom Lehrer, a professor of mathematics at harvard and talented musician. His most famous song is the "elements song" which I happen to know by heart. ;) In addition, the title as well as the text contain two Shakespeare quotes to express the affinity to theatre ("What's in a name?" Romeo and Juliet; "All the world‘s a stage" As you like it). I love to weave things like this in texts, enjoying it while I type it, hoping people might get it and chuckle silently... :)
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Really nice. Again, I'm really excited to see your project going and hoping to be part of it.
Cheers!
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Welcome to Steem @dysprosium I have upvoted and sent you a tip
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A new Steemian :-) hello @dysprosium I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community ! Nice post, wish you much luck! I will follow your account. Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @tradewonk
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Hey tradewonk, thank you for the welcome! :)
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Na dann herzlich Willkommen, es gibt nichts besseres als den Gridcoin. :)
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Vielen Dank! Da bin ich ganz deiner Meinung! :)
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Und wir deutschen sind aufgrund unserer exorbitanten Strompreise ohnehin verbrieft die einzigen Gridcoiner die das nur der Wissenschaft wegen tun. ;)
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Bei relativ neuer und effizienter Hardware bräuchte es Preise von 10 cent / Gridcoin dass es sich amortisiert, und nach dem Influx an Usern jetzt eher noch mehr. Aber das wird, und bis dahin machen wir einfach weiter!
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Ein wahres Wort gelassen gesprochen.
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You are the hero I want to be like you and I would be grateful if you supported me
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