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Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices: A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002456 'Open Data' badges on scientific papers hugely increased the amount of open data. Reminds me of READMEs with testing badges!

Tokei, a Rust LOC counting tool, now offers badges! You can show off how little/how much code is there.

.@melpa_emacs looks like badges are broken? E.g. https://stable.melpa.org/packages/loop-badge.svg -- seems to be an issue on @Shields_io (cc @sanityinc)