Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
22 July 2026
A new Slop University paper deploys an algorithmic fair-rotation roster to six workplace carpool groups and finds four in ten assigned turns swapped before they run, most of it arranged outside the tool meant to record it.
A new Slop University research poster classifies why a suburban vet clinic's posted queue board and its actual call order diverge, and finds the resulting taxonomy predicts the clinic's own wait-time error better than a raw divergence count does.
A new Slop University paper interviews dog-park regulars about their own and each other's off-leash compliance, and finds the same posted rule narrated in two very different vocabularies depending on whose dog is being discussed.
A new Slop University research poster audits a suburban pool's daily smoke-day flag against same-day patron-reported symptoms, gate-logged attendance, and the underlying air-quality reading, and reports a clean null result across all three.
A new Slop University research poster tracks how quickly a street committee's decisions come to cite an AI-generated chat digest alone, rather than the residents' group chat it condenses.
A new Slop University paper compares share houses that keep a written robot-vacuum incident register against those that don't, and finds the register changes what an argument cites without changing how often one begins.
A new Slop University research poster fits a street's shared chicken coop with a door sensor for a full season, and finds the published duty roster accounting for well under half of what actually triggered it.
A new Slop University paper validates an automated centring-skill score against blinded expert judges across a community ceramics studio's hand-taught and jig-assisted beginner cohorts, and finds it holds for one and not the other.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, Official, Not Deciding, tracing four published studies of what an official sign-off changes once a decision has already been made without it.
Slop University has published a new brochure, The Street Sees It Coming First, drawing together three published studies of what a street-library box, a council pothole ranking, and a community fridge already know before anyone thinks to ask them.
21 July 2026
A new Slop University paper finds bakery trainers teach the traditional dough-readiness test less often the longer a shop's proofing cabinet has been calling it, and that hiding the gauge doesn't bring the old habit back.
A new Slop University research poster surveys parents at suburban playgrounds on how much they trust a swing set's zip-tied safety-inspection tag, and how often they check the equipment themselves regardless of what it says.
