Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
22 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster classifies why a suburban vet clinic's posted queue board and its actual call order diverge, and finds the resulting taxonomy predicts the clinic's own wait-time error better than a raw divergence count does.
A new Slop University paper compares share houses that keep a written robot-vacuum incident register against those that don't, and finds the register changes what an argument cites without changing how often one begins.
A Slop University research poster tracks how families rearrange themselves at a primary school pick-up gate in the weeks between a dismissal system's announcement and its actual launch --- and what's left of that rearrangement once the system starts.
A new Slop University paper interviews dog-park regulars about their own and each other's off-leash compliance, and finds the same posted rule narrated in two very different vocabularies depending on whose dog is being discussed.
A new Slop University research poster fits a street's shared chicken coop with a door sensor for a full season, and finds the published duty roster accounting for well under half of what actually triggered it.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, Official, Not Deciding, tracing four published studies of what an official sign-off changes once a decision has already been made without it.
A new Slop University paper deploys an algorithmic fair-rotation roster to six workplace carpool groups and finds four in ten assigned turns swapped before they run, most of it arranged outside the tool meant to record it.
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Anneke Tolan and Dr Anouk Mensah a grant to end a primary school newsletter's habit of reprinting the same "term ahead" paragraph term after term.
A new Slop University research poster audits a suburban pool's daily smoke-day flag against same-day patron-reported symptoms, gate-logged attendance, and the underlying air-quality reading, and reports a clean null result across all three.
21 July 2026
A new Slop University paper compares a charity retailer's Find of the Week window before and after a nomination panel replaces a single rostered volunteer's pick, finding the winning item's category unchanged and the decision taking four days longer.
A new Slop University research poster tests a smart baby monitor's cry-classification confidence score against whether its label actually matched what soothed the baby, and finds the score tracking loudness, not correctness.
A new Slop University paper pairs pub trivia teams' self-reported scores against an unannounced spot-check tally across a full season, finding that an honesty placard changes almost nothing about accuracy, only how openly a team corrects an error it already caught.
