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  • Comment: See WP:REFBOMB. Examples such as:
    * in scientific journals. [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
    * a significant and well-known book. [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65]
    are plain wrong; they are in effect original research. None of 29-40 specify that Sheldrake is published in multiple journals. None of 52-63 specify that his book is well known. These are both sythesised, and WP:SYNTH like WP:OR is forbidden. You do not make the notability case for the subject by doing this; you do just make the all citations that much less worthwhile because the worthwhile cites are buried in the mud. Tagishsimon (talk) 00:32, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: It should be mentioned that there was a prior deletion discussion in 2020 about a draft of the same name which led to the redirect.
  • Comment: I have added a relevance marking to many things included which do not infer notability and should be removed. I have also marked several statements which need sourcing. Ldm1954 (talk) 16:57, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: The Daily Mail is never a reliable source for anything. Theroadislong (talk) 16:38, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: Sources need to be about the subject NOT written by the subject. Theroadislong (talk) 16:28, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: Please note we don't use external links in the body of an article, kindly remove. Theroadislong (talk) 15:50, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: Unfortunately the approach taken since the first review has been to add unsourced material which is not notable. This does not help. For instance, being a research associate is certainly not notable. Ldm1954 (talk) 14:43, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merlin Sheldrake.
    This draft, as written, does not appear to indicate that the appropriate notability criterion is satisfied. In particular, this draft does not appear to indicate that WP:NBIO is satisfied. If one of the criteria is satisfied, please revise this draft appropriately, with a reliable source, if necessary stating on the talk page or in AFC comments which criterion is met, and resubmit. It is the responsibility of the submitter to show that a subject satisfies a notability criterion.
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Merlin Sheldrake
EducationClare College, University of Cambridge (PhD)
Occupation(s)Biologist, Author
Notable workEntangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures
RelativesRupert Sheldrake, Jill Purce, Cosmo Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, author and speaker. His research focuses on mycorrhiza and mycorrhizal fungi.[1][2][3]

Biography

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Merlin grew up in London.[2] He is the son of Rupert Sheldrake and author and therapist Jill Purce. He is the brother of the musician Cosmo Sheldrake.

Education

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Sheldrake received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge in biological sciences, where he also earned a Master's in the history and philosophy of science. For his Ph.D in Tropical ecology from Cambridge,[4] he conducted research into mycorrhizal fungi in tropical forests. [3] Sheldrake was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, conducting Ph.D research on the STRI-administered Barro Colorado Island.

Career

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Merlin is the author of Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures, which won numerous awards and prizes including the Royal Society Science Book prize,[5] and was an inspiration for the Spring 2021 couture collection by Iris van Herpen. [6][7]

He is the presenter and executive producer of the IMAX film "Fungi: Web of Life" narrated by Bjork.[8][9]

He is involved in the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). [10] Launched in 2021, SPUN is a science-based initiative to map and protect the mycorrhizal networks that regulate the Earth’s climate and ecosystems. The goals of SPUN are mapping,[11] protecting,[12] and harnessing [13] mycorrhizal fungi.

He co-launched the flora fauna funga (FFF) initiative with Guiliana Furci and César Rodríguez-Garavito.[14] More than 2000 signatories have added their names to the FFF Initiative's call to include fungi within conservation frameworks and initiatives.[15] Thanks to the efforts of FFF Initiative, a number of prominent organisations and agencies have adopted mycologically inclusive language calling for the recognition of fungi as crucial to efforts to protect and restore the planet. Organisations include re:wild, the IUCN steering committee and government agencies in Australia, Brazil and Iceland. [16]

He is a research associate at the Vrije Universitiet Amsterdam,[2] where he works with the Kiers lab, using nanoprobes and high-resolution imaging to map the nutrient flows and architecture of plant-fungal networks.

He is an advisor to the Fungi Foundation.[17]

In 2021, he served as a consultant for Stella McCartney's fungal-themed runway show in Paris,[2] which included items made from "mycelium leather" and various mushroom-inspired fashion items. [18][19]

Prizes and Awards

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Sheldrake is the author of Entangled Life.[20][21][22][23][24]

Entangled Life book was named on Time magazine's list of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020,[25] The Daily Telegraph list of the 50 Best Books of 2020,[26] and was chosen as one of the best books of 2020 by The Times,[27] the Telegraph.[28] It was serialized on BBC Radio 4 [29] as the book of the week. It won the 2021 Royal Society Science Books Prize and the Wainwright Prize [30] in the Global Conservation Writing category. It was shortlisted for the 2021 British Book Award for Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year.

Selected publications

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Sheldrake, Merlin; Rosenstock, Nicholas P.; Revillini, Daniel; Olsson, Pål Axel; Mangan, Scott; Sayer, Emma J.; Wallander, Håkan; Turner, Benjamin L.; Tanner, Edmund V. J. (2017-01-02). "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition is altered by long-term litter removal but not litter addition in a lowland tropical forest". New Phytologist. 214 (1): 455–467. doi:10.1111/nph.14384. ISSN 0028-646X. PMID 28042878.

Hawkins, Heidi-Jayne (2023-06-05). "Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool". Current Biology. 33 (11): PR560–R573. Bibcode:2023CBio...33R.560H. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.027. PMID 37279689. S2CID 259078574 – via Semantic Scholar.

Sheldrake, Merlin; Rosenstock, Nicholas P.; Mangan, Scott; Revillini, Daniel; Sayer, Emma J.; Olsson, Pål Axel; Verbruggen, Erik; Tanner, Edmund V. J.; Turner, Benjamin L.; Wright, S. Joseph (2018-06-13). "Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to long-term inorganic and organic nutrient addition in a lowland tropical forest". The ISME Journal. 12 (10): 2433–2445. Bibcode:2018ISMEJ..12.2433S. doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0189-7. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 6155082. PMID 29899509.

Sheldrake, Merlin; Rosenstock, Nicholas P.; Revillini, Daniel; Olsson, Pål Axel; Wright, S. Joseph; Turner, Benjamin L. (2017-02-08). "A phosphorus threshold for mycoheterotrophic plants in tropical forests". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1848): 20162093. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2093. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 5310599. PMID 28148744.

Verbruggen, Erik; Sheldrake, Merlin; Bainard, Luke D.; Chen, Baodong; Ceulemans, Tobias; De Gruyter, Johan; Van Geel, Maarten (2017-10-06). "Mycorrhizal fungi show regular community compositions in natural ecosystems". The ISME Journal. 12 (2): 380–385. doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.169. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 5776451. PMID 28984847.

Sheldrake, Merlin (2020-05-05). "The 'enigma' of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogenic plants, and the limits of ethnobotany". Social Studies of Science. 50 (6): 345–376. doi:10.1177/0306312720920362. PMID 32375597. S2CID 218532221 – via ResearchGate.

Sheldrake, Merlin (2017-09-15). "Determinants of Faraday Wave-Patterns in Water Samples Oscillated Vertically at a Range of Frequencies from 50-200 Hz". Water. 9: 1–27.

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Official website

Fauna Flora Funga Initiative (FFF)

Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)

Fungi Foundation

References

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  1. ^ Macfarlane, Robert (2016-08-07). "The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  2. ^ a b c d Kahn, Jennifer (2023-06-08). "The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  3. ^ a b Cooke, Rachel (2020-08-23). "The future is fungal: why the 'megascience' of mycology is on the rise". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  4. ^ Sheldrake, Merlin (1 March 2016). "Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and mycoheterotrophic plants to long-term fertilisation in a tropical forest". idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  5. ^ "2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize, sponsored by Insight Investment | Royal Society". 2023-12-08. Archived from the original on 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  6. ^ "Iris van Herpen SS21 Collection". 2021-01-25. Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  7. ^ "Iris van Herpen Spring 2021 Couture Collection | Vogue". 2021-02-01. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  8. ^ "Björk narrates nature documentary about fungi: Watch". DJMag.com. 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  9. ^ "Björk Takes You on a Journey into the Vast Kingdom of Mushrooms with the New Documentary Fungi: Web of Life | Open Culture". Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  10. ^ Sengupta, Somini (2022-07-28). "Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  11. ^ Sengupta, Somini (2022-08-02). "What fungi can teach us". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  12. ^ Popkin, Gabriel (July 7, 2022). "A Fungal Safari: A new nonprofit has launched an ambitious effort to raise the profile of often invisible soil fungi". Science. 377 (6602): 142–147. doi:10.1126/science.add7606. PMID 35857560. S2CID 250379583.
  13. ^ Little, Amanda (2023-06-06). "Analysis | Vast Networks of Fungi May Hold Key to Climate Fight". The Washington Post.
  14. ^ "Re:wild and IUCN SSC become first global organizations to call for the recognition of fungi as one of three kingdoms of life critical to protecting and restoring Earth | IUCN". 2023-12-13. Archived from the original on 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  15. ^ "Signers – FFF". Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  16. ^ Busby, Mattha (2023-12-13). "Flora, fauna and … funga: campaigners call for new term for conservation talks | Conservation | The Guardian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  17. ^ "Advisory Board". www.ffungi.org. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  18. ^ Friedman, Vanessa (2021-10-05). "Stella McCartney Does Mushrooms in Paris". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  19. ^ Horyn, Cathy (2021-10-05). "On an '80s-Style Catwalk, Chanel Lightens Up". The Cut. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  20. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2020-05-27). "Whether You're Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There's a Fungus for That". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  21. ^ Bone, Eugenia (2020-05-22). "'Entangled Life' Review: Digging Into Enigmatic Organisms". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  22. ^ Kerridge, Richard (2020-08-27). "Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake review – a brilliant 'door opener' book". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  23. ^ Hsu, Hua (2020-05-11). "The Secret Lives of Fungi". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  24. ^ Schlanger, Zoë. "Our Silent Partners | Zoë Schlanger". ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  25. ^ "'Entangled Life' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020". Time. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  26. ^ Reporters, Telegraph (2020-11-28). "The 50 best books of 2020". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  27. ^ Holgate, Patrick Galbraith | Andrew (2023-12-05). "Best nature books of the year 2020". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  28. ^ "The 50 best books of 2020". The Telegraph. 2021-01-04. Archived from the original on 2021-01-04. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  29. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake". BBC. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  30. ^ "Entangled Life". Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
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