What the work involves

Once you're through the assessment, project work falls into a few recurring shapes. You'll write biology prompts hard enough to expose where a model's reasoning breaks — questions where a plausible-sounding chain of steps lands on the wrong answer. You'll grade model responses against a rubric, or write the rubric first when a project needs one. And you'll draft reference answers with the reasoning made explicit, since a bare correct answer teaches a model less than a correct answer with the mechanism spelled out.

The error classes you're hunting are specific: fabricated citations that look like real papers, gene and protein nomenclature that was retired years ago, mechanisms lifted from one organism and applied to another where they don't hold, confident numbers with no source, and conclusions that overreach what an experimental design can support. Catching these reliably is what separates a useful annotator from a fast one.

What the platform screens for

The assessment tests domain depth before anything else — whether you can hold a claim under follow-up, cite what you actually know, and say when a question sits outside your subfield. It also tests calibration: reviewers want to see you distinguish an answer that is wrong from one that is unsupported, incomplete, or right for a bad reason. Writing matters too, because a grading note that a downstream trainer can't act on has little value.

  • Graduate-level training or equivalent research experience in a biological science
  • Named subfield depth (molecular, cell, genetics, microbiology, ecology, physiology, neuro, immunology)
  • Willingness to work through an unpaid assessment before any paid matching

Logistics

  • Fully remote and asynchronous; you claim tasks from a queue rather than holding fixed hours
  • Volume is project-driven and uneven — busy stretches follow quiet ones
  • Most contributors treat this as part-time alongside research or teaching
  • The assessment is unpaid; pay begins only on matched project work, and the quoted band reflects observed rates, not a guarantee