MAINT: Add some badges to README.md

Adds badges for

- downloads from Pypi and Conda
- link to stackoverflow
- link to Nature paper

[skip ci]

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4195ff917..b211ce466 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,27 @@
 # <img alt="NumPy" src="/branding/logo/primary/numpylogo.svg" height="60">
 
+<!--[![Azure Pipelines](https://dev.azure.com/numpy/numpy/_apis/build/status/numpy.numpy?branchName=main)](-->
+<!--https://dev.azure.com/numpy/numpy/_build/latest?definitionId=1?branchName=main)-->
+<!--[![Actions build_test](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/actions/workflows/build_test.yml/badge.svg)](-->
+<!--https://github.com/numpy/numpy/actions/workflows/build_test.yml)-->
+<!--[![TravisCI](https://app.travis-ci.com/numpy/numpy.svg?branch=main)](-->
+<!--https://app.travis-ci.com/numpy/numpy)-->
+<!--[![CircleCI](https://img.shields.io/circleci/project/github/numpy/numpy/main.svg?label=CircleCI)](-->
+<!--https://circleci.com/gh/numpy/numpy)-->
+<!--[![Codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/numpy/numpy/branch/main/graph/badge.svg)](-->
+<!--https://codecov.io/gh/numpy/numpy)-->
+
+[![Powered by NumFOCUS](https://img.shields.io/badge/powered%20by-NumFOCUS-orange.svg?style=flat&colorA=E1523D&colorB=007D8A)](
+https://numfocus.org)
+[![Pypi Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/numpy.svg?label=Pypi%20downloads)](
+https://pypi.org/project/numpy/)
+[![Conda Downloads](https://img.shields.io/conda/dn/conda-forge/numpy.svg?label=Conda%20downloads)](
+https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/numpy)
+[![Stack Overflow](https://img.shields.io/badge/stackoverflow-Ask%20questions-blue.svg)](
+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/numpy)
+[![Nature Paper](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI-10.1038%2Fs41592--019--0686--2-blue)](
+https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2)
+
 NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python.
 
 - **Website:** https://www.numpy.org
@@ -60,7 +82,3 @@ mailing list. You are very welcome to join.
 If you are new to contributing to open source, [this
 guide](https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/) helps explain why, what,
 and how to successfully get involved.
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-[![Powered by NumFOCUS](https://img.shields.io/badge/powered%20by-NumFOCUS-orange.svg?style=flat&colorA=E1523D&colorB=007D8A)](https://numfocus.org)