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dysprosium

@dysprosium

Plant Freak, Technophile & Art Enthusiast

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dysprosium
@dysprosium May 1, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

Dysprosium grows: The Milpa Experiment

Dear Plantlovers, today, I would like to introduce you to a little growing experiment I am running this year (aside from the community plantbreeding@home-project): The Milpa! "Milpa" is the name for…

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@dysprosium Apr 25, 2018, 9:13 PM UTC

Kynseed - a whimsical 2D sandbox RPG (Introduction)

Dear Steemians, today, I will post under a tag I have never posted before: Gaming! Although I have far too little time to dive into virtual worlds, without them, I could not bear the real one! Games…

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@dysprosium Apr 22, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

plantbreeding@home #8 - Import / Export

Dear Plantbreeders, I have good news! While EU-residents have received their seeds a while ago, Non-EU residents have not, yet. I immersed myself in the customs and import regulations of the differen…

19 upvotes 5 replies $3.17
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@dysprosium Mar 26, 2018, 6:25 AM UTC

plantbreeding@home #7 Spring is here, spring is heeeeere!

Dear Plantbreeders, just as in the famous Sinatra song, spring is finally here and we can start to grow. I have distributed the first batch of seeds to all participants living in the EU. There are so…

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@dysprosium Mar 12, 2018, 8:26 AM UTC

Awesome article about Gridcoin, Steemit and Solarcoin on "ComputerBase"

Dear Gridcoiners, Steemians and Solarcoiners, great news: ComputerBase, a well known German tech- and computerwebsite, published a very positive article about Gridcoin, Steem and Solarcoin.This is gr…

25 upvotes 6 replies $2.04
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@dysprosium Mar 6, 2018, 5:56 AM UTC

plantbreeding@home #6 - Let's grow!

Dear Plantbreeders, March is already here- high time to get the breeding going! Due to the setbacks with my plants I unfortunetly could not perform the first crossing yet. But this should not be in t…

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@dysprosium Feb 5, 2018, 7:16 PM UTC

Copyright of scientific research articles on Steemit

Dear Steemians, today I would like to pose a question to you, as this is the reason my blog got quiet over the last months: How does the copyright of research articles affect posting on Steemit? Lady…

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@dysprosium Dec 25, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

Project DEAL about to achieve 2/3rds of its goal - a better future for scientific publishing

Dear Steemians, here is a short update concerning this post I wrote three months ago. A short recollection: Germany wants to negotiate deals with three major scientific publishers to abolish paywalls…

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@dysprosium Dec 16, 2017, 2:01 PM UTC

plantbreeding@home #5 - Small setbacks

Dear Steemians, hello again! I am deeply sorry for being unavailable forquite some time now, but my PhD left me without choice. Those past months were hell and left me without energy to write or comp…

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@dysprosium Sep 27, 2017, 6:53 AM UTC

A big DEAL for science – changing the game in scientific publishing

One of the worst things about the economy around science is actually publishing ones work. Why, you ask? Well, let me explain: A better time of scientific publishing... Most universities and many res…

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