Hey— I’m Bastien
I’m a MSCA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Caen Normandy and a member of the CEEC laboratory.
My research focuses on the evolution of cognition and brain using cuttlefish, a cephalopod species closely related to octopuses and squid. My research spans various fields such as neuroethology, marine biology, cognitive psychology, robotics and machine/deep learning.
My Research
I’m based at the University of Caen, exploring how animals think and interact with their environments.
Currently, my main focus is on cuttlefish, particularly how they use visual cues to navigate the world—whether it’s spotting prey, avoiding predators or communicating with conspecifics.
Overall, my research follows a central question: how animals detect, interpret, and predict the behaviours of others, under which brain mechanisms and how these capacities emerge through development and evolution?
Check out my publications on Google Scholar.
(Extra)Academic Activities
Up to recently, I was very much active in science publishing.
In 2021, I co-founded a science publishing (In&Sight) promoting and developing transparent and open publishing practices. We even launched In&Vertebrates, an open peer review and open access journal that published vertebrates and invertebrates research. With time, we published 12 articles and shed light on anecdotal behaviours that provided insight into animal cognition.
The journal is now inactive but this might change in a near-future.
