Interviews & Lectures
Organization for Tropical Studies
In 2011 I was interviewed in Costa Rica as part of a series organized by the Organization for Tropical Studies. The interview focuses on how I became interested in tropical ecology and especially in Dan Janzen’s classic paper “Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics.”
Two versions are available on youtube:
— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91xDPfqVF4 (26:19) a full version
— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1jmY98Ghik (3:17) a short version
Interview in “Big Biology” podcast
This podcast is run by Cam Ghalambor, Art Woods, and Marty Martin. The interview with me was published in September 2024 and covers papers Steve Stearns and I wrote on being a grad student, thermal biology, lizards and flies, mountaineering, and writing. The podcast is available at:
— https://www.bigbiology.org/episodes/2024/9/12/ep-122-ahead-of-the-thermal-curve-with-ray-huey
Reflections on Papers Past
This text interview was run by Hari Sridhar, who maintains a website featuring interviews with authors of key papers in ecology and evolution. As of summer 2023, Hari’s website contains interviews with 154 authors (Abrams to Zuk). Hari interviewed Al Bennett and me about our paper on behavioral and physiological coadaptation:
Huey, R. B., & Bennett, A. F. (1987). Phylogenetic studies of coadaptation: preferred temperatures versus optimal performance temperatures of lizards. Evolution,* 41, 1098-1115.
This was probably the first paper in evolutionary physiology that attempted to infer physiological trait values at ancestral nodes. It also examined evolutionary correlations between thermal preferences and optimal temperature for sprinting.
— https://reflectionsonpaperspast.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/revisiting-huey-and-bennett-1987
Videos are available of a few seminars I’ve given.
Physio Webinar (2020)
This talk was an online seminar I gave for the Physio series, a series run by graduate students in the Graduate Program in Sciences (General Physiology) at Biosciences Institute, University of São Paulo (IB-USP, Brazil). I talked about “metabolic meltdown” and thermal tradeoff during winter(1:20:10)
— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFFugt7cI8Q
PlasPhen(2022)
This is the 6th webinar of the French network GDR plasticité Phénotypique (PlasPhen), funded by the CNRS. My theme is on designing a seasonal acclimation experiment. (1:22:36)
— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt7sMHZymoY
History of foraging-mode study for a e-book by Barry Sinervo (2019)
Shortly before Barry Sinervo died in March 2021, he completed an interactive e-book: Behavioral Genetics to Evolution. In the video (link below), I describe the history of my work on foraging mode in Kalahari (Kgalagadi lizards). Barry’s book is accessible at: (https://tophat.com/marketplace/science-&-math/biology/full-course/behavioral-genetics-to-evolution-barry-sinervo-professor-of-ecology-and-evolution-university-of-california-santa-cruz/4400/).
— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUnrVuCITE
*Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley (2008)
This old talk focused on ‘altitudinal compression’ during the Triassic, vulnerability of tropical lizards to climate warming, and rapid evolution of Drosophila subobscura. (54:45)