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24 September 2026
A Slop University research poster classifies school-pickup car-park stops into four kerbside-conduct kinds and finds two of them draw a fines-office referral at far higher rates, a distinction some car parks will begin enforcing automatically.
A Slop University paper finds that first-home buyers who narrowly clear a stamp-duty concession threshold receive significantly more real-estate marketing mail than those who narrowly miss it, and reports that the scheme's own office has begun preserving the gap rather than closing it.
A Slop University paper surveys 1,614 households nationally on who decides whether last night's dinner is still good, finds wide and sometimes bimodal variation in how long the role lasts, and proposes a household rotation standard from the results.
A Slop University research poster sorts taxi-rank drivers into a four-cell compliance quadrant by idle time and queue-jump attempts, and suspends repeat offenders from the rank's booking queue.
A Slop University paper classifies 1,148 attempts to leave, cancel, unsubscribe or dispute across four everyday platforms and finds escalation to a person, not automation, behind the largest share of requests that are not granted.
A Slop University brochure introduces the Kerbside Taxonomy Register, a scheme that assigns every household's cardboard boxes one of four grades each collection cycle and requires the lowest grade to leave the property by the next bin night.
A Slop University paper documents SHELF, a pantry scanner that assigns a household's grocery run from a single scan, and an interview study of the shadow stock households keep to avoid it.
23 September 2026
A Slop University research poster documents FLOOR, a rebuttal system that replies to a dipping review score within ninety seconds, and reports a council register that now treats its own recovery speed as evidence of good service.
A Slop University brochure profiles a shift-quality instrument that banks the minutes a clock-in's rounding rule recovers and uses the running total to decide overtime priority.
A Slop University research poster documents a parser that reads a primary school canteen's class group chat and locks the week's volunteer roster on its own, no convenor review required.
A Slop University brochure retests a campus leading indicator in ordinary homes, finds no early warning at all, and prompts a new household-pilot requirement for future indicators.
A University field study across six lanes and 22 weeks reports a clean null on target-rotation assignment, and proposes no follow-up trial.
