sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Why human language may be intertwined with fire... Hannah Little writes for Scientific American 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/6e8aflzf26 Follow us for more: #languages #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Meditation moved from religious practice into wellness culture with many original safeguards stripped away. What happens when science discovers risks that contemplative traditions may already have recognized? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/n5d8aj3f93 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What if "consciousness" isn’t real? Tim Bayne writes for Scientific American 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/6o6a8cmmfn Follow us for more: #humanity #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 010
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Is Jewish life better measured in dues paid or in commandments fulfilled? Rabbi Charles Arian writes for The Wisdom Daily 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/o1f7ftlypm Follow us for more: #mitzvah #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If AI can help scientific research while allowing students to bypass the intellectual struggle of education, what is a university actually for: producing knowledge, awarding credentials or forming human beings? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/eylg6ch20x 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When the people building a technology openly warn that they do not fully know how to control it, what does moral responsibility require from religious communities: skepticism, precaution, engagement or all three? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/5y8pnlilk9 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If fear about AI can itself erode concentration, motivation and a sense of future possibility, how do we take technological risk seriously without allowing apocalyptic thinking to consume humanity? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/5tytjnamrt 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What does building a fragile, temporary structure by hand each year teach a family about impermanence? Jodie Sadowsky writes for Kveller 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/b1od4tbzmg Follow us for more: #sukkot #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 010
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Would we even recognize a signal from an intelligent civilization if we received one? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/szvwl9p62n Follow us for more: #space #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 001
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Knowing the science doesn’t make it less magical. Watch the full conversation from our flagship program, Scientists in Synagogues now: youtu.be/nHoh58DF_m8?si=etQDSsGUnz7… #Wonder #ScienceAndReligion #SinaiAndSynapses 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We Made This Mistake With Social Media. Let’s Not Make It Again With AI. Coby Schoffman writes for The Jewish Journal🔗 ➡️ jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinio… Follow us for more: #ai #science #jewish #judaism #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Was it a miracle… or just a dream? 🔗 sinaiandsynapses.org/content/source… #ScienceAndReligion #TalkingDonkey #TorahAndTradition #ScientistsinSynagogues #SinaiAndSynapses 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What would education look like if it were built on breadth instead of specialization? Mariam Sabri writes for Aeon 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/kcgzwb7ckc Follow us for more: #polymath #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 010
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Play with no score, no points, no tracking. Is gamification quietly eroding something religious traditions also protect? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/msuix6x5on Follow us for more: #games #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jewish chavruta learning is built around arguing, questioning and struggling toward understanding. If AI gives us answers instantly, can we use it in a way that actually restores productive intellectual struggle rather than replacing it? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/5mmzfe4t7i 001
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What else is missing from the human story because it rotted instead of fossilizing? Benjamin Taub writes for Nautilus 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/3dsraxzhtz Follow us for more: #history #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How do you approach AI? . . . #AI #JudaismAndTech #EthicsInAI #FutureOfFaith #ScientistsinSynagogues #SinaiAndSynapses 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What makes intergenerational mentorship so powerful in science and mathematics? Gregory Barber writes for The New York Times 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/5y4rlmy01r Follow us for more: #genius #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When archaeology confirms a people existed, does that settle anything about what their texts claim? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/aykinslk7m Follow us for more: #archeology #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Is it morally wrong to not take care of yourself? Laura K Soter & Fan Yang write for Psyche 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/szvaersh46 Follow us for more: #selfcare #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 18/09/2026After attending the Pro-Human Assembly, Sinai and Synapses Founding Director Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman reflects on AI at a human scale: beyond fears of superintelligence, what do we want our children to learn, what skills should we keep, and how do we preserve purpose and meaning? 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Try acting as if no one chooses. Does less blame make you a better neighbor or a worse one? Tara-Lyn Camilleri writes for Psyche 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/cp0iut2qtc Follow us for more: #choice #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Don't just thank your rabbis. Ask what you've asked of them. Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein writes for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/zjq1ijal5c . . . Follow us for more: #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/qvfdqjxicz Follow us for more: #einstein #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 010
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nine communities. Six states and countries. A whole lot of questions worth asking. 🔗 f.mtr.cool/2zge8wa8q8 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If quiet periods after learning help the brain consolidate memory, what have we lost by filling nearly every empty moment with phones, podcasts and feeds? 🔗 ➡️ f.mtr.cool/32d4cr0mdo 001
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Invented or discovered? . . . #Math #Science #Judaism #Cosmology #SinaiandSynapses 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How does a creation story land differently when the Moon takes an afternoon, not an age? David Nield writes for Nautilus 🔗 ➡️ nautil.us/the-moon-may-have-been-cr… Follow us for more: #moon #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 020
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world and all sorts of strange things are going wrong. 🔗 ➡️ www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026… Follow us for more: #AI #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tomorrow! What can Jewish history teach us about navigating the disruption of AI? 📅 Wednesday, September 16 ⏰ 12 PM ET | 9 AM PT | 7 PM Israel 💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 f.mtr.cool/unwl10wvvr 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down. 🔗 ➡️ www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/0… . . . Follow us for more: #AI #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 010
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon will join forces at an event tomorrow to push for human-controlled AI. 🔗 ➡️ www.axios.com/2026/09/14/coxon-bern…? Follow us for more: #AI #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 010
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI... Derek Thompson writes 🔗 ➡️ www.derekthompson.org/p/what-is-col… Follow us for more: #AI #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. Paul Ford writes for The New York Times 🔗 ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opinion/… Follow us for more: # #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anthropic’s CEO warns that the makers of artificial intelligence “owe it to humanity to try” to slow down. 🔗 ➡️ www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026… . , . Follow us for more: #AI #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Twenty-five years after 9/11, Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman reflects on a visit to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, just one year after Flight 93 crashed there, and on an unexpected connection to the High Holidays. 🔗 thewisdomdaily.com/clal-reflects-on… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What are you bringing with you into 5787? 📚 As we welcome a new year, the Sinai and Synapses team is sharing a few of the books that stayed with us this past year. See our 5787 reading list, and tell us: what should we add to ours? 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In a new essay from Culture, Uncurled, religion and science scholar and Sinai and Synapses Fellowship alumnus Dr. Connor Wood visits a storied neo-Gothic church in Copley Square and a small Catholic chapel tucked inside a shopping mall. 🔗 cultureuncurled.substack.com/p/why-… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Rosh Hashanah marks the birth of the world. As we bring AI into existence, what kind of parents are we turning out to be? 🔗 For a deeper look at the AI safety concerns behind this reflection, read the piece: www.derekthompson.org/p/its-time-to… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every year, we return to the same prayers. And sometimes, the same mistakes. Why do the flaws we confessed last year have a way of meeting us again? 🔗 jweekly.com/2026/09/03/why-we-end-u… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Twenty five years on, what does memory preserve better when the eyes were not the witness? 🔗 ➡️ blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-was-at-gr… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Sinai and Synapses Fellowship alumna and paleoanthropologist Dr. Briana Pobiner joins History of Humankind to explore evidence of cannibalism among our ancestors and what it might tell us. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?is=7PYkS3jl6H… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Physics tells us uncertainty may be built into the fabric of the universe. But what happens when uncertainty moves from the quantum world into our politics? 🔗 sinaiandsynapses.org/content/wrestl… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Is Immortality Possible? Elena Kazamia writes for Nautilus 🔗 ➡️ nautil.us/is-immortality-possible-1… Follow us for more: #life #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 010
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"'The Brothers Karamazov' consumed me in a way I hadn’t experienced in years, maybe decades. I could think of little else..." 🔗 ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/… Follow us for more: #literature #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 021
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in? Matteo Wong writes for The Atlantic 🔗 ➡️ www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026… Follow us for more: #AI #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Could the Jewish tradition of argument, challenge and competing interpretations offer a better model for interacting with AI than treating a chatbot as an oracle that simply gives answers? 🔗 ➡️ blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-argue-wit… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Forgiveness is often described as something we should do. Far less often do we talk about how. Read more: scienceforthechurch.org/2026/08/25/… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This year, the Los Alamos Jewish Center is using its Scientists in Synagogues grant to explore the atomic age from multiple directions Read more: losalamosreporter.com/2026/08/13/lo… 000
sinaisynapses.bsky.social @sinaisynapses.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Did modern life break human sleep, or are our ideas about what “normal” sleep should look like themselves historically unusual? Kristen French writes for Nautilus 🔗 ➡️ nautil.us/where-human-sleep-went-wr… . . . Follow us for more: #rest #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new 000
