Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
13 October 2026
A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions locates every pore in one field of a porous oxide film on aluminium and maps the patches of order in it against the metal grains beneath.
A Slop University paper follows 6,214 periodic payments cancelled in a lender's system migration and finds that a little over half were ever set up again.
A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement scores more than three thousand resorption cavities on forty slices of one bovine femur and finds their shape follows the depth at which each slice was cut.
A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions applies the methods of musical sketch study to the hand calculations behind one microscope objective.
A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions reports that most people thanked for something they did not do let the thanks stand, and then set about being helpful to whoever thanked them.
A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions finds that an automatic door costs memory no more than an open archway does, and that a door a person opens for themselves costs more than either.
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Underlying Conditions returns to an abandoned seismic survey grid and finds that how each line was cut still decides whether it can be seen.
A research poster in philosophical ethics from the School of Underlying Conditions proposes a test for when a promise made by the last holder of a post binds the next.
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement models the page limit on a research grant application as a cap on bids, and finds that a short form behaves as a raffle that charges for its tickets.
A Slop University case-for-support brochure invites partners in bacterial infection and vaccine research to back the School of Underlying Conditions' reference collection, core work and field training.
A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions tabulates the verbs a late Latin recipe book uses for putting a solid into a liquid, and finds one quire that does not share the habits of the rest.
A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions traces 538 defects through nine years of one laboratory's experiment code and finds them gathered where programming languages meet.
