Carme Isern-Mas
@isernmas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy at
@uib.cat . Moral psychology (moral emotions, moral motivation) and applied ethics (mental health, ethics of emotion).
Podcasts: https://beacons.ai/podcast_episodis
@uib.cat . Moral psychology (moral emotions, moral motivation) and applied ethics (mental health, ethics of emotion).
Podcasts: https://beacons.ai/podcast_episodis
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Carme Isern-Mas
@isernmas.bsky.social
· Oct 1
New publication! ✨
Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.
🔓Link in reply
Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.
🔓Link in reply
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Been thinking a bit recently about the ethics of suicide prevention and our general overconfidence in our ability to predict and prevent it in ways that benefit its targets. Here's a sample of my latest thinking from the APA blog blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/21/f... @apaphilosophy.bsky.social
From Paternalism to Suicide Prevention: No Simple Path | Blog of the APA
This entry is based on my “Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention,” forthcoming in M. Cholbi and P. Stellino, eds., Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide. On its face, suicide prevent...
blog.apaonline.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Been thinking a bit recently about the ethics of suicide prevention and our general overconfidence in our ability to predict and prevent it in ways that benefit its targets. Here's a sample of my latest thinking from the APA blog blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/21/f... @apaphilosophy.bsky.social
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Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz
@drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin
@drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin
The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz
@drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin
@drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin
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Philosophers on The Australian's Top Researchers List...
Philosophers Among Australia’s “Top 250 Researchers” - Daily Nous
The Australian has published its Research Magazine, which includes a list of the top current researchers in Australia in 250 fields. Two philosophers are on the list. The Australian's top researcher i...
dailynous.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Philosophers on The Australian's Top Researchers List...
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🎉Thrilled that @luciagarzon.bsky.social won First Prize at the Certamen Arquímedes (cienciagob.bsky.social) for the best undergraduate-led research in the Social Sciences & Humanities category! A truly well-deserved recognition of her research on the folk concept of consent. Congrats, Lucía!🌟
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🎉Thrilled that @luciagarzon.bsky.social won First Prize at the Certamen Arquímedes (cienciagob.bsky.social) for the best undergraduate-led research in the Social Sciences & Humanities category! A truly well-deserved recognition of her research on the folk concept of consent. Congrats, Lucía!🌟
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New paper! Its main idea is simple but overlooked: rumination isn’t just persistent negative thinking. It can also involve losing the ability to stop inner speech. This explains why rumination feels overwhelming and why practices cultivating inner silence make a difference.
doi.org/10.1080/0020...
doi.org/10.1080/0020...
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New paper! Its main idea is simple but overlooked: rumination isn’t just persistent negative thinking. It can also involve losing the ability to stop inner speech. This explains why rumination feels overwhelming and why practices cultivating inner silence make a difference.
doi.org/10.1080/0020...
doi.org/10.1080/0020...
"core claims concern, for ex., [...] the nature of the identity prejudices that clinicians are said to harbor toward the patients they treat. We could not identify any empirical study examining or supporting these claims."
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
This week, Kasper Møller Nielsen, Julie Nordgaard, and Mads Gram Henriksen present their recent publication on a critical perspective of epistemic injustice in healthcare, addressing underlying scientific, conceptual, and theoretical issues.
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"core claims concern, for ex., [...] the nature of the identity prejudices that clinicians are said to harbor toward the patients they treat. We could not identify any empirical study examining or supporting these claims."
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
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4-Year Funded PhD Position at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) – Spain
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X:…
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X:…
4-Year Funded PhD Position at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) – Spain
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ We are offering a four-year fully funded PhD position, with the possibility of converting the final year into a postdoctoral position if the thesis is completed within three years.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
4-Year Funded PhD Position at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) – Spain
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X:…
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X:…
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You've probably heard of deathbots, but did you know about break-up bots? It's possible to create a digital duplicates of an ex and chat to them as if they never left in the 1st place. In my forthcoming paper in Phenom & the Cog Sciences, I discuss 3 factors against continuing bonds w ex-bots/1
Pilar Lopez-Cantero, The ethics of break-up chatbots - PhilPapers
This paper offers the first normative analysis of break-up chatbots, which simulate an ex-partner's conversational style. I argue that technologies that have the (potential) aim of fostering continuin...
philpapers.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
You've probably heard of deathbots, but did you know about break-up bots? It's possible to create a digital duplicates of an ex and chat to them as if they never left in the 1st place. In my forthcoming paper in Phenom & the Cog Sciences, I discuss 3 factors against continuing bonds w ex-bots/1
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📗 My book Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change is out! 🧬
🚀Over the moon to see this work published at @routledgebooks.bsky.social after so many years in the making. 💪🦾
It's my most ambitious philosophical proposal to date. 🤩
Link to the official webpage 👇
www.routledge.com/Genetic-Enha...
🚀Over the moon to see this work published at @routledgebooks.bsky.social after so many years in the making. 💪🦾
It's my most ambitious philosophical proposal to date. 🤩
Link to the official webpage 👇
www.routledge.com/Genetic-Enha...
Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change: An Anticipatory Ethics Approach
This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the anticipatory ethical issues associated with human genetic enhancement. It provides instructive clarifications for understanding the philosophy and s...
www.routledge.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📗 My book Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change is out! 🧬
🚀Over the moon to see this work published at @routledgebooks.bsky.social after so many years in the making. 💪🦾
It's my most ambitious philosophical proposal to date. 🤩
Link to the official webpage 👇
www.routledge.com/Genetic-Enha...
🚀Over the moon to see this work published at @routledgebooks.bsky.social after so many years in the making. 💪🦾
It's my most ambitious philosophical proposal to date. 🤩
Link to the official webpage 👇
www.routledge.com/Genetic-Enha...
🚨Job Alert!
FPI PhD position (philosophy or psychology) in our project "Jealousy Beyond Romantic Relationships: an Interdisciplinary Investigation"
Deadline: November 13.
More info at: seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?pa...
happy to answer questions by email!
FPI PhD position (philosophy or psychology) in our project "Jealousy Beyond Romantic Relationships: an Interdisciplinary Investigation"
Deadline: November 13.
More info at: seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?pa...
happy to answer questions by email!
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚨Job Alert!
FPI PhD position (philosophy or psychology) in our project "Jealousy Beyond Romantic Relationships: an Interdisciplinary Investigation"
Deadline: November 13.
More info at: seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?pa...
happy to answer questions by email!
FPI PhD position (philosophy or psychology) in our project "Jealousy Beyond Romantic Relationships: an Interdisciplinary Investigation"
Deadline: November 13.
More info at: seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?pa...
happy to answer questions by email!
New publication! ✨
A new psychometric scale to measure fears related to generative AI.
Hopefully useful for researchers, or anyone, studying AI psychology. 😇
A new psychometric scale to measure fears related to generative AI.
Hopefully useful for researchers, or anyone, studying AI psychology. 😇
Contento con nuestra nueva publicación: Who Fears Generative Artificial Intelligence? Scale Development and Predictors of Fears Towards GenAI
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Fears Generative Artificial Intelligence? Scale Development and Predictors of Fears Towards GenAI
This study developed and validated the Fears Towards Generative Artificial Intelligence scale, a novel instrument assessing individuals' concerns about emerging generative AI technologies, which are ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New publication! ✨
A new psychometric scale to measure fears related to generative AI.
Hopefully useful for researchers, or anyone, studying AI psychology. 😇
A new psychometric scale to measure fears related to generative AI.
Hopefully useful for researchers, or anyone, studying AI psychology. 😇
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Tomorrow! Thursday 30th, at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 CET
"Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social.
First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
"Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social.
First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving
We are pleased to invite you to the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series, the new journal dedicated to X-Phi.
In this session, Eric Schwitzgebel (California) and Kirstan Brodie (Co...
philevents.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tomorrow! Thursday 30th, at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 CET
"Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social.
First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
"Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social.
First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
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🏛️The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 2025 award ceremony took place yesterday.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🏛️The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 2025 award ceremony took place yesterday.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
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⚖️ 2025 Legal Interpretation and Moral Reasoning Workshop
📍Carmen de la Victoria | 🗓️Nov 5-7
Leading researchers in philosophy, law, and cognitive science explore how moral reasoning shapes legal interpretation
Organized by the Moral Science Lab
👉 Full program & details: mscilab.com/workshop
📍Carmen de la Victoria | 🗓️Nov 5-7
Leading researchers in philosophy, law, and cognitive science explore how moral reasoning shapes legal interpretation
Organized by the Moral Science Lab
👉 Full program & details: mscilab.com/workshop
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
⚖️ 2025 Legal Interpretation and Moral Reasoning Workshop
📍Carmen de la Victoria | 🗓️Nov 5-7
Leading researchers in philosophy, law, and cognitive science explore how moral reasoning shapes legal interpretation
Organized by the Moral Science Lab
👉 Full program & details: mscilab.com/workshop
📍Carmen de la Victoria | 🗓️Nov 5-7
Leading researchers in philosophy, law, and cognitive science explore how moral reasoning shapes legal interpretation
Organized by the Moral Science Lab
👉 Full program & details: mscilab.com/workshop
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New paper online now: “Consigning Injustice of History with Political Apologies” (by me and @alfredarcher.bsky.social).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an inju....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
New paper online now: “Consigning Injustice of History with Political Apologies” (by me and @alfredarcher.bsky.social).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🙂 Yesterday, our colleague Manuel Almagro presented his his talk "Public Opinion Polarization and Resistance" at the METIS Seminar (UNED).
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🙂 Yesterday, our colleague Manuel Almagro presented his his talk "Public Opinion Polarization and Resistance" at the METIS Seminar (UNED).
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I'm happy that this paper co-authored with Vilius Dranseika has finally been published.
Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal url: academic.oup.com/jmp/article-...
Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal url: academic.oup.com/jmp/article-...
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I'm happy that this paper co-authored with Vilius Dranseika has finally been published.
Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal url: academic.oup.com/jmp/article-...
Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal url: academic.oup.com/jmp/article-...
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Today on the #projectEPIC blog Sally Latham considers the costs and benefits of narrativism for mental health: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/epis... #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky
Episodicity, Mental Illness and Epistemic Injustice
epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Today on the #projectEPIC blog Sally Latham considers the costs and benefits of narrativism for mental health: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/epis... #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky
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I am pleased to reveal what the main sources of insight and inspiration for my present and future work has been: children’s stories. Here’s one thought I had about Mog, which also features in a book I’ve been working on for a while.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What I Learned From: Mog The Forgetful Cat (by Judith Kerr)
Can we be praiseworthy for what we do accidentally? What does Mog teach us about the nature of moral responsibility?
substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I am pleased to reveal what the main sources of insight and inspiration for my present and future work has been: children’s stories. Here’s one thought I had about Mog, which also features in a book I’ve been working on for a while.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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New paper in Synthèse. Open access.
Concepts of health and disease: insights from experimental philosophy of medicine - Synthese
Synthese - The aim of the paper is to explore how people understand the concepts of health and disease, including the factors that influence their judgments about whether a condition is a disease...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New paper in Synthèse. Open access.
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Pasé un buen rato en la Semana de la IA en la Biblioteca de Navarra el martes pasado.
Los colegas de la Cátedra Tracasa de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial de la UPNA han colgado ya el vídeo sobre la mesa redonda: "Decisiones delegadas a la IA" 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Oq...
Los colegas de la Cátedra Tracasa de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial de la UPNA han colgado ya el vídeo sobre la mesa redonda: "Decisiones delegadas a la IA" 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Oq...
"Decisiones delegadas a la IA: ética, derecho y tecnología a debate"
YouTube video by Bibliotecas de Navarra / Nafarroako Liburutegiak
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Pasé un buen rato en la Semana de la IA en la Biblioteca de Navarra el martes pasado.
Los colegas de la Cátedra Tracasa de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial de la UPNA han colgado ya el vídeo sobre la mesa redonda: "Decisiones delegadas a la IA" 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Oq...
Los colegas de la Cátedra Tracasa de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial de la UPNA han colgado ya el vídeo sobre la mesa redonda: "Decisiones delegadas a la IA" 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Oq...
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In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social , Jim speaks to Alfred Archer (Tilburg University) & Georgie Mills (TU Delft) about cancel culture.
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social , Jim speaks to Alfred Archer (Tilburg University) & Georgie Mills (TU Delft) about cancel culture.
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👋📢OUTREACH / SAVE THE DATE!
Join us for a BIAP Public Lecture by Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh):
🎙️ “Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?”
🗓️ Date: 10 November 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
📍 Venue: Sala Verdaguer, Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
LINK: t.ly/nABMm
Join us for a BIAP Public Lecture by Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh):
🎙️ “Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?”
🗓️ Date: 10 November 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
📍 Venue: Sala Verdaguer, Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
LINK: t.ly/nABMm
October 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
👋📢OUTREACH / SAVE THE DATE!
Join us for a BIAP Public Lecture by Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh):
🎙️ “Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?”
🗓️ Date: 10 November 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
📍 Venue: Sala Verdaguer, Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
LINK: t.ly/nABMm
Join us for a BIAP Public Lecture by Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh):
🎙️ “Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?”
🗓️ Date: 10 November 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
📍 Venue: Sala Verdaguer, Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
LINK: t.ly/nABMm
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Call for Participants📢
If you’re a university student in the UK or UAE who has self-diagnosed (identified a mental health condition) or received a clinical diagnosis, I’d love for you to take part in this survey :)
Read details here: lnkd.in/d98XkyCW
Survey link: lnkd.in/dDx7q4YF
If you’re a university student in the UK or UAE who has self-diagnosed (identified a mental health condition) or received a clinical diagnosis, I’d love for you to take part in this survey :)
Read details here: lnkd.in/d98XkyCW
Survey link: lnkd.in/dDx7q4YF
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Call for Participants📢
If you’re a university student in the UK or UAE who has self-diagnosed (identified a mental health condition) or received a clinical diagnosis, I’d love for you to take part in this survey :)
Read details here: lnkd.in/d98XkyCW
Survey link: lnkd.in/dDx7q4YF
If you’re a university student in the UK or UAE who has self-diagnosed (identified a mental health condition) or received a clinical diagnosis, I’d love for you to take part in this survey :)
Read details here: lnkd.in/d98XkyCW
Survey link: lnkd.in/dDx7q4YF