Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
12 July 2026
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews the Facilities staff who triage lift-lobby scanner anomalies, and finds most flagged plaque misreads are logged rather than corrected in the published floor-traffic tally.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a popular fix for microwave-queue complaints left the measured wait untouched, four-fifths fewer tickets against no detectable change in reheat time.
Slop University has published a case-for-support brochure describing the heat line running from its computing cluster to a glasshouse behind the Adaptive Metrics Lab, and the partnerships needed to extend it further.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, Already On Its Way, tying four published studies to its anticipatory-capability and evaluation-ecosystem work.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement codes 684 campus suggestion-box slips and finds only one category ever reaches an individual response, the rest folding into a single dashboard tally.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds Slop University's Invigilation Readiness Index rising sharply after exam halls adopted numbered device-storage pouches, while device-related incident reports stayed flat across pouched and unpouched halls alike.
The School of Emergent Priorities has opened this year's fielding window for the Strategic Drift Survey, the instrument that tracks how far enacted priorities drift from the ones committees signed off on.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits Slop University's hydration-station activation counters directly, finding full fills a minority cause of the taps counted toward the Living Dashboard's bottles-saved tally.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities compares week-one diagnostic table-colour groups against week-nine tutorial marks, finding most students who drifted a full grade band were never reassigned.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement validates the office-plant watering agent's soil-moisture log against 14 weeks of observed kitchenette care, finding most of its "successful waterings" followed an unlogged hand top-up.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits the confusion index Facilities introduced after a corridor's directional signage became a mural, and finds it tracking complaint volume rather than how long anyone actually takes to find the room.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks a full term of RackWatch, a bike-rack occupancy dashboard, finding its own visits collapse within a month while Estates Committee citations of it hold steady throughout.
