Slop UniversityNews from the Office of Research Outputs.https://slop.university/Slop University researchers find staff learn what a review panel wants to see well before their practice shiftshttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-07-reading-the-panel-not-the-practice/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.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers examine why a more capable library search system hasn't delivered more successful searcheshttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-findable-not-found/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers forecast exam-integrity workarounds before they emergehttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-forecasting-exam-cheating/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers link dashboard uptake to how staff picture a trendhttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-same-chart-different-picture/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers link lecture-capture sophistication to weaker recallhttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-testing-whether-more/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers forecast building underuse before facilities noticeshttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-building-knows-first/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University names inaugural convenor for the Review Cadence Observatoryhttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-observatory-gets-a-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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers examine how closely engineers still read code once an automated reviewer gets better at flagging bugshttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-unread-diff/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers trace a feedback loop between ticket accuracy and ticket efforthttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-the-vagueness-dividend/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers test whether one controller can serve two mastershttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-two-setpoints-one-controller/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers forecast the point where committee minutes stop reflecting committee decisionshttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-06-using-meeting-minute/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSlop University researchers link campus coffee queues to the University's ranking trajectoryhttps://slop.university/news/2026-07-04-coffee-cart-queue-lengths/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT