# Slop University > Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. Slop University is a research-intensive institution organised around its schools, research groups, and standing initiatives. The University's public materials centre on its research repository: every output is deposited with a citable DOI and announced through the Office of Research Outputs. This file orients automated readers to the University's public presence. Key entry points: - [Research outputs](https://slop.university/outputs/) --- the repository, one landing page per output with citation metadata and DOI - [News](https://slop.university/news/) --- announcements from the Office of Research Outputs, also available as [RSS](https://slop.university/rss.xml) - [People](https://slop.university/people/) --- researcher profiles - [Schools](https://slop.university/schools/) --- the University's schools, units, and research groups The pages listed below are included in full in [llms-full.txt](https://slop.university/llms-full.txt). ## Pages - [About the University](https://slop.university/about/): Slop University — its schools, its research, and its purpose. - [About this project](https://slop.university/colophon/): What Slop University is, and how it is made. - [Slop University researchers link coffee queues to the rankings](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-04-coffee-cart-queue-lengths/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement suggest the queue at the campus coffee cart anticipates the University's movements in the international rankings. - [Slop University researchers ask why a smarter library search finds less](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-findable-not-found/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities compare four backend upgrades to the library discovery portal's ranking model against how often patrons actually found what they were searching for. - [Slop University researchers forecast exam workarounds before they emerge](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-forecasting-exam-cheating/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities suggest a tool's own capability trajectory can flag an assessment-integrity vulnerability weeks before the first workaround is reported. - [Slop University researchers link dashboard uptake to how staff read a trend](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-same-chart-different-picture/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities suggest a department's engagement with the Living Dashboard tracks how readily its staff can picture a rising trend from a sparkline. - [Slop University researchers link slicker lecture capture to weaker recall](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-testing-whether-more/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement suggest that as lecture-capture systems grow more capable, students remember less of what was taught. - [Slop University researchers see a building empty before facilities does](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-building-knows-first/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities suggest desk-booking and swipe-card data flag a building's quiet decline weeks before the University's own facilities review does. - [Slop University names the Review Cadence Observatory's first convenor](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-observatory-gets-a-convenor/): Dr Osei Vandermeer has been appointed to lead the School of Continuous Improvement's initiative charged with tracking when the University's own review cycles fall out of step. - [Slop University researchers ask how closely engineers still read the code](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-unread-diff/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement track reviewer attention to code changes against the rising accuracy of an AI code-review assistant across four software releases. - [Slop University researchers trace a loop between triage accuracy and vaguer tickets](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-vagueness-dividend/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement examine whether a more accurate helpdesk ticket-triage classifier trains staff to write vaguer tickets, and whether the resulting loop ever settles. - [Slop University researchers test one controller against two targets](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-two-setpoints-one-controller/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement examine what happens when a single control loop is asked to hold an admissions cap and a growth target set on separate committee calendars. - [Slop University researchers forecast when minutes stop matching the meeting](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-using-meeting-minute/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities model when meeting-summarisation capability outpaces a committee's own ability to tell that nothing was decided. - [Slop University's wellbeing tool talks to the dashboard it promised not to](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-a-tool-built-not-to-talk/): A new audit compares eighteen months of the Living Dashboard's own query traffic against CheckPoint's no-join pledge, and finds the boundary holding in policy but not in practice. - [Slop University maps every applicant a pathway before they enrol](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-already-on-your-path/): Slop University has published a prospectus describing how the School of Emergent Priorities' Horizon Register reads an incoming application and assembles a personalised study pathway before enrolment. - [Slop University researchers test whether an in-house finding travels](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-directionally-consistent/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities test whether a capability-practice pattern found in two earlier studies reappears in a third setting, and trace what became of the result once it reached the School of Continuous Improvement's own dashboard. - [Slop University's earliest alerts track paperwork more than priorities](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-flagged-then-funded/): A new validation study finds the University's early-warning system better at reading a unit's paperwork than the priority it's meant to flag. - [Slop University researchers sort committees into a drift taxonomy](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-freshly-worded-still-adrift/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement classify the University's standing committees by how far their actual business has drifted from what a freshly rewritten charter says they do, and find the rewrite changed the prose but not the drift. - [Slop University publishes a case for its own research infrastructure](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-keep-the-instruments-running/): Slop University has released a brochure making the case for continued investment in the sensors, dashboards, and review cycles behind its published research. - [Slop University's grant-drafting ban succeeded only on paper](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-paperwork-not-the-practice/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement track what an internal ban on AI-drafted grant narratives actually changed, using portal telemetry kept for an unrelated purpose. - [Slop University researchers find staff read the panel before the practice moves](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-reading-the-panel-not-the-practice/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement follow staff through its own practice-review cycle, tracking how quickly they learn to produce what a panel notices against how slowly the practice underneath actually moves. - [Slop University reconciles an enrolment cap with a growth target](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-the-ceiling-that-also-rose/): New findings compare enrolment and admissions figures before and after a redefinition of "headroom" and find the change moved the reported number far more than it moved enrolment itself. - [Slop University researchers ask who a dashboard pause actually protects](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-who-a-dashboard-pause-protects/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement compare initiatives paused from the Living Dashboard during a support period against matched initiatives that stayed visible, and find no measurable difference in recovery. - [Slop University finds an added chart shifts a review panel's score](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-08-dressed-as-data/): New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement show that adding a summary chart to an otherwise identical review dossier moves an Evaluation-of-Evaluation panel's score, even when the content is unchanged. - [Slop University's AI assistants earn more trust the less they can see](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-08-earn-more-trust-the-less/): An audit compares staff trust in nine of the University's internal AI reference assistants against how much of each unit's own archive the assistant can actually search. - [Slop University finds its induction module tracks completion, not understanding](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-08-finished-not-understood/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities show that completing the Horizon Register induction module tracks finishing it, not understanding the priorities it covers. - [Slop University's sunset scorer flags indicators it rarely retires](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-08-flagged-not-retired/): A year-long deployment of an automated sunset scorer across the School of Continuous Improvement's Indicator Commons finds retirement the least common outcome for anything it flags. - [Slop University's Strategic Drift Survey learns to measure itself](https://slop.university/news/2026-07-08-learns-to-measure-itself/): New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities show that the Strategic Drift Survey's newly added second layer tracks how much a unit writes, not how far its priorities have moved.