How to pronounce ICLR

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What’s the canonical way to pronounce ICLR?

Samuele Marro from the University of Oxford has been taking a data-driven approach.

Samuele Marro holding a large poster with hand-written tally marks in columns titled "eye-clear" and "I-C-L-R". A pen is attached at the bottom. — Samuele Marro's data gathering project

So far, the results are largely in favour of “eye-clear” over “I-C-L-R”.

Update (29 April): at the final count, it’s 526 for “eye-clear” vs 245 for “I-C-L-R”. A victory for “eye-clear”, though almost a third of voters preferred the letter-based pronunciation.