Call to Action: How Wet is Your Ink?

I wasn’t expecting to post to the blog today (there are a few announcements and reviews currently in the works, but I’ve been too sick the last week to tease anything out) but a friend of mine, Dr. Nicole Sharp (aka aerognome), is undertaking a project that needs community input, so I wanted to share it out with you all. Here is the ask in her own words:

Hey, fountain pen friends, I have a request: help me figure out how and why different inks seem wet or dry!

TL;DR - Fill out my survey here: https://forms.gle/a4EnhKZcjfBWA39CA

As many of you know, I study the physics of fluids, and I've teamed up with a rheologist to look at the characteristics of different fountain pen inks. We'd like to correlate our scientific findings with how people perceive different inks, and, to that end, we've created this survey. We're asking you to rank the listed inks on a scale of 1 (extremely dry) to 10 (extremely wet) based on your own experience. If you've only used one of the inks, that's fine, just rank that one. Used a bunch of them? Awesome, rank them all!

The more FP users we can get info from, the better we can correlate our rheological results with the subjective ones, so please share the link and encourage your pen friends to participate.

I’m excited to see the results, but of course that depends on community participation, so go and participate!