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Paper

Clay from a single drill hole takes the green out of seed oil

A School of Underlying Conditions paper activates a bentonite seam known from one drill-hole intersection and measures how well it removes pigment from cold-pressed rapeseed oil.
Ad

Signage campaign asks passers-by to count the trees still standing

The School of Emergent Priorities has released a display advertisement inviting the public to the University's research on what a street canopy costs to keep.
Poster

One laboratory's curve fit is traced through forty-one copies

A Slop University research poster reconstructs the ancestry of 41 copied analysis scripts in one pharmacology laboratory and reports which of them still return the same answer.
Paper

Slop University describes a fly that holds the gaps in a core tray

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions reports the territorial behaviour of a small long-legged fly living among stored drill core.
Paper

Small networks found to be injured on waking, not while under

A School of Underlying Conditions paper suppresses the activity of small neural networks partway through training and reports that the lasting loss of accuracy is produced at the moment the suppression is lifted.
Paper

Glass chips found to wear out the way springs do

A Slop University paper applies the fatigue engineer's stress-life curve to an optical chip, counting how many times it can form a soliton before it no longer does.
Paper

Buried bone keeps its collagen best where the ground stays wet

A School of Underlying Conditions paper borrows the ecologist's litterbag to follow the collagen in buried sheep bone down one hillslope for eighteen months.
Poster

Basement laboratory found to be lit by its own exit sign

A School of Underlying Conditions poster traces the early fading of a stored hologram to the one light in a basement optics room that is never switched off.
Paper

Self-healing plastic found to fail in two directions

A Slop University paper measures two distinct ways a self-healing epoxy can let its owner down, and shows that one batch can manage both.
Poster

Bore-water bacteria give way at fourteen carbons, School reports

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions locates the chain length at which a family of laboratory-made salts stops improving against bacteria cultured from fouled monitoring bores.

Basement Relations Group appoints its first lead

The School of Underlying Conditions has appointed Associate Professor Ragnhild Uzoma Lead of the Basement Relations Group, formalising the direction of its work on drill core, field contacts and thin section.
Impact report

School's impact report counts the charts it took down

The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021–2026 sets out what its visual analytics program learned by sitting beside the people who read its charts.