Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
8 July 2026
Slop University has published a brochure making the case for its own continuously updated indicators over the world's annual rankings.
A new study from the School of Emergent Priorities finds Horizon Register scan entries lose nearly all their hedging language by the time Futures in Committee minutes them, and that the entries left with no hedge at all advance through the Register's pipeline fastest.
New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities show Master of Priority Studies students can name their day-one track months later, but not the evidence that would move them off it.
A new interview study from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement finds byline order across the University's research-output pipeline tracks reply speed to the press office's 48-hour pre-release query, not analytic contribution.
New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement show that Demo Quarter's pairwise-comparison shortlisting instrument returns a different winner for the same pair of entries depending only on which one is shown first.
Slop University's 2026-2031 Strategic Plan adds a fourth pillar dedicated to tracking whether the other three are actually being delivered, and to redirecting funding toward whichever one falls behind.
New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement show a badge-and-lock compliance tracker scores a week with no data at all as its cleanest week on record.
New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities show that completing the Horizon Register induction module tracks finishing it, not understanding the priorities it covers.
An audit compares staff trust in nine of the University's internal AI reference assistants against how much of each unit's own archive the assistant can actually search.
New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities show that the Strategic Drift Survey's newly added second layer tracks how much a unit writes, not how far its priorities have moved.
A year-long deployment of an automated sunset scorer across the School of Continuous Improvement's Indicator Commons finds retirement the least common outcome for anything it flags.
New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement show that adding a summary chart to an otherwise identical review dossier moves an Evaluation-of-Evaluation panel's score, even when the content is unchanged.
