Paul Harrison

Dec 5, 2024 | medium.com | Paul Harrison

Despite how you may “feel” an algorithm doesn’t know you. It is simply counting and describing your behaviour. Paul Harrison, PhD·Follow3 min read·--For millions of Spotify users, Wrapped has become an eagerly anticipated annual tradition — a moment of personal reflection served up with a slick dose of data science.

Dec 3, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Philip Cameron |Paul Harrison

The UK’s Employment Rights Bill includes several revisions to trade union laws. These changes aim to give unions a greater opportunity to expand recognition into workforces where employers might previously have been resistant to union recognition and to make it easier for unions to support and represent employees.

Nov 26, 2024 | medium.com | Paul Harrison

What could Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour possibly have in common? Both, in their own way, grapple with the depths of human emotion; one confronting mortality and transcendence, the other navigating resilience and self-reinvention in a modern, hyperconnected world. Paul Harrison, PhD·Follow7 min read·--Photo by Stephen Mease on UnsplashI spent Sunday afternoon at a concert of Mahler’s Second Symphony, what has been called the Resurrection Symphony.

Nov 10, 2024 | medium.com | Paul Harrison

I’m sure you’ve hard it before, maybe from a politician, a health expert, your boss, maybe even your parents: “We just need to provide more information.”Paul Harrison, PhD·Follow4 min read·--That’s the magic solution to everything, right? Whether it’s about getting people to vote, to eat healthier, or to stop speeding — just give them the facts. Educate them. And boom! Problem solved. The idea that information alone will shift people’s preferences is almost seductive in its simplicity.

Aug 31, 2023 | nature.com | Maxime Taquet |Alex Horsley |Amisha Singapuri |Marco Sereno |Linzy Houchen-Wolloff |Neil J. Greening | +5 more

AbstractPost-COVID cognitive deficits, including ‘brain fog’, are clinically complex, with both objective and subjective components. They are common and debilitating, and can affect the ability to work, yet their biological underpinnings remain unknown. In this prospective cohort study of 1,837 adults hospitalized with COVID-19, we identified two distinct biomarker profiles measured during the acute admission, which predict cognitive outcomes 6 and 12 months after COVID-19.