Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 July 2026
Slop University's Office of Research Outputs has published a new prospectus that opens on a share-house bill-splitting app's zero balance and follows the same gap into its wider research culture.
A new Slop University paper audits 54 instrumented households through 71 real blackouts, finding installed battery-storage systems deliver well under half their manufacturer-rated backup time regardless of size or chemistry, and that telling owners the true figure afterward changed nothing about what they did next.
A new Slop University research poster fits three shared-office fish tanks with a badge-tap feed logger and checks its timestamps against the paper roster taped up beside them, finding the log settles barely three in five disputed weeks.
A new Slop University paper interviews 58 households about why they invoke a shared streaming device's Guest profile against their own screen-time cutoff, finding the reason parents worry about least accounts for the largest share of the extra viewing time it produces.
A new Slop University research poster audits 618 guardian-notice pairs across nine primary schools, finding a messaging app's "seen by" receipt predicts almost nothing about whether a notice's content was actually understood.
A new Slop University paper codes 587 primary-school student-council campaign posters into procedural, aspirational, and undeliverable pledges, finding undeliverable promises win their races at roughly double the rate of procedural ones.
A new Slop University research poster compares five years of Year 7 elective-ballot cohorts, finding neither post-allocation satisfaction nor the odds of getting a first preference change once the ballot asks for three choices instead of five.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Applied Measurement features Senior Lecturer and Director Torun Ezeigwe holding up the rubric her research keeps coming back to, running across bus-stop panels and campus digital signage.
A new Slop University paper times 246 junior sports tryout outcomes against the team group chat, finding the chat named the outcome before the club's own formal phone call in three cases out of four.
A new Slop University research poster interviews staff at nine firms that replaced a fixed annual-leave allocation with an unlimited policy, finding average leave taken fell across the board.
A new Slop University paper audits 4,312 rent-to-own appliance accounts across a hardware and underwriting changeover, finding a remote payment-lockout's credited effect on repayment mostly traces back to who was approved for the contract, not to the device itself.
A new Slop University research poster audits 52 store-level product recalls, finding that a shelf-edge withdrawal notice moves no measurable sales until the stock is physically pulled from the shelf.
