Dear @ruth-girl, congrats (from an ex-biologist who switched to IT 18 years ago) for a very pleasant-to-read post.
I'd like to contribute two small things for the readers:
- for non-greek speaking people it might be fun to note that "gasteropod" means "stomach in the foot"
- one cannot skip over the fact that in France, snails are considered a delicacy, cooked and served with garlic and butter
I've noticed you still have free slots to approve witnesses. We have started a new steem witness and are trying to represent steem with pride and advance its cause on several dimensions.
Concretely speaking I have friends who remained in the domain of molecular biology research and whom I 'm working to persuade to try out Steemit as STEM blogging platform (didn't lose hope yet but I can't boast about much either)
Our detailed witness application is here.
Would you maybe consider approving it as well?
Thank you for the valuable input!
It is hard to get people sign up, most of them do not believe in the potential this platform has and it is a shame.
I will go over your links soon. Thanks for letting me know and good luck with your witness! :)
Thank you!
Indeed, people interested in tech and who'd be willing to sign do not blog much and people who blog are too far away from tech topics to give anything but a blank stare when told about "blogging on blockchain" :-)
Re: witness - We've just published an update after 7 days (TL;DR: still no block for us :( ... )
Small bragging: do you happen to know @roxane ? You might want to check out this article from her :-)