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9 August 2026
A new Slop University advertising campaign stages the Trajectory Analytics Group's interest in the workaround that outlives the system it was built to patch, built around an office meeting-room's auto-release override.
A new Slop University advertising campaign puts the Strategic Drift Survey's method to work on a café's morning forecast call, joining the University's bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
A new Slop University research poster tests 164 car-share rentals, finding that renters who tick fastest through the app's pre-trip damage checklist recall existing scratches and dents far less accurately in a live phone quiz at drop-off, and dispute damage charges roughly three times as often.
A new Slop University research poster compares scripted and unscripted fraud-risk interviews across 46 retail stores, finding confirmed-fraud catch rates hold flat between protocols while scripted stores report longer queue times.
A new Slop University paper surveys 487 gig food-delivery riders, finding that distrust in a bundled efficiency score predicts a higher rate of self-reported on-road shortcuts, a pattern that holds after adjusting for tenure, weekly hours, and weather.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Priority Studies turns a running watch's recovery-readiness score into its whole recruitment pitch, joining the bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
A new Slop University paper interviews 22 residents across nine share houses that adopted a chore-tracking app, finding the whiteboard roster it replaced remains the more trusted record, and tracing why in five recurring themes.
A new Slop University research poster codes 214 watering-roster excuses from eleven community gardens into a six-category typology, finding one category precedes formal plot reassignment more than any other.
A new Slop University paper runs a 16-week field trial across 48 street libraries, finding a suggested return-window sticker produces no measurable change in how quickly books move, in either a polite or a directive wording.
A new Slop University research poster pairs 14 weeks of a coin-op laundromat's sensor-issued unpaid-cycle alerts against the owner's independently audited coin-meter counts, finding alert frequency tracks a machine's distance from the entrance rather than the shortfall it is meant to flag.
8 August 2026
A new Slop University research poster tests whether a council pool portfolio's incident-report volume, or its independently audited breach severity, predicts when a robotic skimmer's exclusion zone actually gets redrawn.
A new Slop University paper turns a supermarket chain's staggered self-checkout theft-flagging rollout into a natural experiment, finding no measurable change in shrinkage and a steadily rising rate of honest shoppers stopped by mistake.
