Zsóka Csorba

PhD student at ETH Zürich (D-BSSE, Fussenegger Group) #synbio Alumnus of BME&ELTE (Budapest) and @ChemBiolHun (Kele Group, HUN-REN)

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

A wearable patch could help people with Parkinson’s continuously monitor the levels of the drug levodopa in their sweat, allowing them to fine-tune dosage to help maximize symptom relief while minimizing excessive involuntary movements. In PNAS: https://t.co/KxfAUFgyS6

[Zsóka Csorba @cszso]

@norbertlkiss Looking forward to seeing it published!

[george church @geochurch]

https://t.co/5TlGkOdfzk

[Norbert L. Kiss @norbertlkiss]

I shipped v2 of The Farmland Atlas! This is a big one, built almost entirely from your feedback 🌍

I rebuilt the land, climate, water, and soil scoring formulas from scratch, so what you see now is a lot more trustworthy than v1.

A few things you can now do:

📅 See current data, not just projections

Added a 2026 option to the time selector alongside 2050 / 2070 / 2100. So you can check where a patch of land stands right now.

🌾 Score only real farmland

Land data now masks out cities, built-up areas, and bare ground like rock and ice. So a score reflects land you could actually farm, and not a highway or a glacier.

💧 Factor in water access

Added two new datasets: irrigation availability and rainfall reliability. Useful for telling apart two places with similar soil but very different odds of actually getting water.

🔍 Find a place fast

New search bar! drop in coordinates or a place name instead of panning around the map.

🎛️ Filter every layer

Custom filters now work on the land and institutions layers too, not just the combined "everything" layer.

✨ Plus a cleaner interface overall:
+ new frosted-glass look,
+ clearer legends (much better on mobile),
+ auto metric/imperial and map centering,
+ and higher-fidelity tilesets for exiting data.

Would love feedback if you're on the site!

PS. Full methodology is documented and I'm publishing it very soon... just making it look great 📝 it's taking me longer than expected 😅

[Norbert L. Kiss @norbertlkiss]

i made an app that shows you where land will still be worth farming in 2050, 2070, and 2100.

most people buying rural land, homesteading, or starting a farm right now have no idea what the climate will do to it in a few decades.

so i combined 30+ public datasets and scored the entire planet and gave every location a simple 0–100 future viability score.

click anywhere on Earth to see it. it’s free.

https://t.co/BONikB7zFP

[Zsóka Csorba @cszso]

@norbertlkiss Is there anything else that could benefit from this kind of approach? something with obvious rip-offs? I was thinking Nespresso and Philip Morris, but there are probably better targets out there.

[Zsóka Csorba @cszso]

@norbertlkiss 🫠

[Zsóka Csorba @cszso]

@norbertlkiss I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it!

[Norbert L. Kiss @norbertlkiss]

Everyone's posting about their Midea PortaSplit. I bought mine last year (a small flex) and here's the one thing almost everyone skips:

Proper installation. It's a 3-4°C difference vs. just winging it.

Most people leave the window cracked open and run the hose through the gap. But that's leaking hot air back in the whole time.

What I did instead last year: I took the glass panel out of the balcony door and replaced it with a painted sheet of plywood. Then I ran the hose through it and insulated around it. (I swapped the glass back in the fall)

Result: we dropped our living room from 28-30°C to 19-20°C.

Worth the extra setup.

https://t.co/lzrFZ19o2z

[Norbert L. Kiss @norbertlkiss]

I built this as a tiny macOS utility app! (OS-wide, so not just Termius)

basically @levelsio spec:
- detects the screenshot
- immediately uploads it to your server
- puts the remote path on your clipboard to ⌘V
- lives in your menu bar too
- switches between servers in a click
- toggle it on/off in a click

works with any terminal (and Tailscale too), and it's absolutely free.

2.2mb app, idling on 0.02% CPU.

[Zsóka Csorba @cszso]

@jrkelly @ProfTomEllis https://t.co/SfQNyLiLLO

[Olivier Borkowski @O_Borkowski]

Engineering Bacteria for Environmental Release: Regulatory Challenges and Design Strategies
https://t.co/KrJ1trL8nl

[Norbert L. Kiss @norbertlkiss]

My plan to read more for fun this year

[Zsóka Csorba @cszso]

@norbertlkiss I almost sent this to you! Haha😄

[Omar Akbari @Omar_Akbari_]

Engineered Skin Microbiome Reduces Mosquito Attraction to Mice https://t.co/CZyCkeoNKB

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

A 3D structural model of an entire bacterial cell.

Biology is the coolest thing ever.

https://t.co/1BK9W3Imps

[Georgie Hau Sørensen @Georgie_HauSor]

‼️ Open SynBio competition registration to close in 2 weeks ‼️

gogec, a free-to-enter international SynBio competition for students, is registering teams for its third edition

Please share the link to anyone who might be interested in participating

https://t.co/y6nak2VDlj

[Eszter Csibra @eszter_cs]

🥁 Happy to share that our Parsley app for handling data from *any plate reader* is now live and the preprint is up!

🌱 This is Parsley. https://t.co/U5m13O5DoX

[Zsóka Csorba @cszso]

👀👀👀

[Tom Ellis @ProfTomEllis]

Citation analysis apparently predicts synthetic biology ahead of next-gen seq for the Chemistry Nobel Prize this year 👀
https://t.co/rDRGQCQEQV

[Diego del Alamo @DdelAlamo]

"Atom-by-atom protein generation and beyond with language models"

Generative modeling of small proteins with noncanonical AAs and antibody-drug conjugates

https://t.co/jwidfeaukK