What the work involves

You will spend most of your time reading model-generated neuroscience content and deciding whether it is actually correct — not merely plausible. That means catching a conflated distinction between long-term potentiation and long-term depression, a misattributed pathway, a citation to a study that does not say what the model claims, or a clinical inference that overreaches the evidence. Alongside evaluation, you will write: detailed rationales explaining why an answer fails, corrected reference responses, and scenario-based prompts and exercises drawn from real research or clinical reasoning. Some projects ask for annotation against a rubric; others ask for original question authoring at the edge of current understanding, where two defensible interpretations exist and the model must handle the uncertainty honestly.

What the platform screens for

micro1 runs an AI-led interview before any project assignment. It is a conversational screen that probes your stated background with follow-ups, so vague answers surface quickly. Expect to be asked what you actually did in your dissertation or lab, which techniques you ran with your own hands, and where the field's consensus is weaker than textbooks suggest. Reviewers also assess written clarity — your explanations become training signal, so ambiguity is a defect. No AI or machine learning background is required or expected.

  • Verifiable credentials: PhD, MD, or documented research equivalent in neuroscience or an adjacent field
  • Depth in at least one subfield rather than broad familiarity across all of them
  • Ability to state confidence levels and distinguish established findings from contested ones
  • Writing that a non-specialist reviewer can audit

Logistics

Fully remote and largely asynchronous. Contributors typically pick up batched tasks and complete them against a deadline rather than working fixed hours; many treat it as 5–15 hours per week alongside academic or clinical work, though volume fluctuates with customer demand and can pause between projects. Pay is hourly, invoiced as a contractor; the $60–80/hr band reflects rates observed on similar micro1 expert engagements and is not guaranteed for any given project.