as a former phd student, it's pretty systemic - labs sometimes get funding as a direct mapping with how many papers get published by that lab. If you do cool wo

as a former phd student, it's pretty systemic - labs sometimes get funding as a direct mapping with how many papers get published by that lab. If you do cool work but that does not land you a paper, you are literally wasting the budget that your employer spent on you. Once you solve that (and thanks to things like this numpy papers, things may be starting to evolve !)