Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
14 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a trolley-location forecast grew sharply more accurate once staff could see the tracker, and traces the gain to trolleys that simply stopped moving.
A new impact report from the School of Continuous Improvement pairs logged AI-assistant use across University systems against an independently audited measure of workload, finding the two move together in only one of four areas examined.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities compares two car-park boom gates that read the same automated confidence score, finding staff scrutiny drops sharply in the top band only at the gate where the score is shown to them.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews lapsed bike-rack-tag holders and Facilities staff, finding a dormant reservation's time to release depends on why it was never given back, not on any technical barrier to doing so.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits nine shared postdoctoral offices' door nameplates against the weekly hot-desk roster, finding a stale tab behind most of the semester's misdirected mail, parcels, and visitors.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits eight weeks of intercampus shuttle dispatch logs, finding drivers overrode the arrival-forecasting model's skip call on more than one in three reviewed stops, most often for a queue the model had already logged as empty.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities matches 348 students' first library noise complaints, finding an informal silent-study-pod referral closes the complaint record at a substantially higher rate than a verbal warning alone.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a student's first cover-sheet AI-use declaration predicts every later one, even as an independent reliance estimate moves considerably underneath it.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement tests a building's fire-drill assembly headcount against its own swipe-card log, finding the two agree only moderately and that a marshal refresher briefing doesn't close the gap.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tests whether the campus apiary's hive-weight Pollinator Index predicts wild-pollinator richness nearby, finding the two move independently across a full season.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Pause Is the Point, tying three published studies to its work on designed interruption.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement codes a year of kitchenette kettle fault tickets, finding the Adaptive Metrics Lab's Asset Retirement Panel's own procurement pathway behind only a small share of what its quarterly throughput figure reports as resolved.
