Can't wait to read the next three posts and learn more about your vision! While I'm a scientist and a steem user, those two worlds seem to rarely overlap. Hive account@simoxenham, I think you're the first person I know who independently of #steemphilly and has now started using Steem. A network effect in its infancy!

Anyways I'm excited for more scientists to start using Steem, which could eventually replace centralized services such as Twitter and Medium.

a journalism model that depends on page views doesn’t create incentives to report the news accurately, it does the opposite.

Great point. It seems like the titles for many news stories are chosen not by their authors but their editors. I've seen lot's of good articles with exaggerated or incorrect titles. The incentives to produce click bait are so strong. Steem is not immune to click bait titles (see for example the plague of ALL CAPS titles), but at least here you can downvote if a title is misleading.