Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
21 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster tracks a shared office fridge's QR-label disposal app against its own dispute-ticket log, and finds compliance climbing while arguments over whose food it was do not move.
A new Slop University paper tracks volunteer ground curators' storm-call overrides against a radar app's own recommendation over a season at 42 junior-sport ovals, and finds the override fading despite tied accuracy.
A new Slop University paper pairs pub trivia teams' self-reported scores against an unannounced spot-check tally across a full season, finding that an honesty placard changes almost nothing about accuracy, only how openly a team corrects an error it already caught.
A new Slop University research poster tests a smart baby monitor's cry-classification confidence score against whether its label actually matched what soothed the baby, and finds the score tracking loudness, not correctness.
A new Slop University research poster surveys users of 38 suburban little free libraries on how much they value the box against its own posted take-vs-leave ratio, and finds the number's only real effect is whether anyone can read it at all.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Truce Has to Hold, tracing the school-holiday reset chart into four published studies of what a household rule becomes once the resolve behind it fades.
A new Slop University paper finds a food-delivery app's late-order notification wording shifts customer complaint blame onto the courier, without any change in how late orders actually run.
20 July 2026
A new Slop University paper builds a cheap sensor rig to shadow a ten-pin bowling alley's proprietary scoring system for a season, then tracks whose call the league's rules committee believes when the two disagree.
A new Slop University research poster interviews council road crews across one wet season and finds compliance with an app's pothole-repair ranking eroding week by week, not holding steady.
A new Slop University research poster surveys 236 warehouse floor staff across 19 sites and finds a colour-coded hi-vis vest tier, introduced so sensor-guided machinery can identify trainees, tracks rostered tenure far more than it tracks how safe workers say they feel.
A new Slop University paper deploys a real-estate disclosure QR code across nine agency branches and finds passers-by scan it more often than they use it to actually compare the photos.
A new Slop University research poster interviews 64 nominal human sponsors across 18 junior netball clubs and finds genuine oversight of an automated team-selection app grows rarer, not more common, at the clubs that lean on it most.
