Matt Bevan

For three years our viewers on YouTube have been asking us to set up a dedicated If You're Listening channel they can subscribe to and exclusively get our videos as soon as they're posted. Well, better late than never! www.youtube.com/@IfYoureList...

In ABC's If You're Listening, Matt Bevan examines how the unpredicted 1982 super El Niño revolutionized weather forecasting via the Southern Oscillation Index. As climate change warms baseline ocean temperatures, forecasters face new hurdles as traditional indices diverge from rainfall patterns.

The Brisbane event is coming up on Sunday 11 October and there are still tickets available if Mike Pence has the courage brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/matt-...

Inception is clearly a movie written by a father of young children. It’s based on the idea of “what if I could do an awesome heist while also having a little nap”

Very excited to be returning to the Brisbane Writers Festival next weekend (Sunday 11 October) to chat to Jess Rudd about my book If You're Listening: Declassified. Tickets are still available here: bwf.org.au/2026/brisban...

Real talk though, given their field position through the whole game I can’t understand how the Roosters only won that by 1 point.

Time to build the train line to Bondi Beach I reckon.

That was incredible. The Roosters absolutely thought Manuleleua was a decoy for Ponga there and he just walked through them. #NRLGF

SAM WALKER FALCONED IN THE DRESSING ROOM #nrlgf

My cousin just snapped this. Joey Johns is in a similar state to all Knights fans right now (considering the merits of a tactical stress spew)

The Knights being in the Grand Final feels like something from my childhood, from the pre-Facebook era, has been brought back. The fun of pulling the plastic wrap off a new CD, being excited about a new Lord of the Rings movie or a family trip to Australia’s Wonderland.

Can AI predict the future? "If You're Listening" Great episode, @mattbevan.bsky.social #auspol youtu.be/Oz7GXguhCfA?...

Big news Knights fans disappointed by lack of available grand final seats. With Phoenix Crossland suspended, there is now an extra seat available - on the bench. Seat AAA1 (Adult) Unobstructed view, moderate to severe chance of hospitalisation if sent on the field.

The main question I have out of this Knights finals series is what on earth was Adam O’Brien doing all these years. This lineup is pretty much the same as it’s been since 2022 and yet… now they’re in a grand final.

Very nice backgrounder from @mattbevan.bsky.social, although someone should tell him that it’s either “HMS Conqueror” or “the Conqueror” but not “the HMS Conqueror”. “Who would America back in a UK-Argentina war? | If You're Listening” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMjo...

I’ve never seen a game like that in my entire life

I… I just can’t believe that happened

<INCOMPREHENSIBLE SCREAMING> #nrlpanthersknights

Hm #nrlpanthersknights

Whatever kind of football you care about, this is just fabulous, impassioned writing. Hand that person a Walkley already.

Just learned what Wharfie Time is and it feels like those times you first hear about a celebrity’s existence when reading a push notification about their untimely death

The cashless society is very convenient for everyone except the tooth fairy who is having a serious liquidity issue

The myGov website security system when it’s…

Anyway, look, that win has really perked me up after spending all night at the John Hunter Hospital with an agonising kidney stone. Well done Knights. #nrlwarriorsknights

How many successful challenges was that? Unbelievable. #nrlwarriorsknights

Dunno how deliberate this is but Sydney Sweeney so far has a 100% hit rate in making whatever (occasionally obscure) brand she is hired to advertise globally famous in a matter of days. Hard to think of another person who has that kind of track record.

So the best-attended match in the first week of the NRL Finals was Souths v Knights and that’s mainly because 12-15k Knights fans came down to Sydney to watch. Sounds about right. I was there. By full-time the Souths fans were gone and Novocastrians had the place to themselves.

When someone asks me if their friend Saulo can come hunting but I can’t answer because Graham is blocking the way.

Just to be clear, this is not me

Getting pretty sick of that Shellenberger guy. Here’s a good longer look at the issues surrounding glacier melt and catastrophic flooding from @mattbevan.bsky.social. Melting and floods create unstable high altitude lakes. It will remain a problem until the ice is gone

Unlike most climate-related disasters, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) can actually be addressed through engineering. The trouble is, that engineering costs money, and governments aren’t paying. youtu.be/YD97s8cGrkc?...

Dads love telling crazy stories from history. Trust me - I’m a dad and telling crazy stories is my whole job. “If You’re Listening: Declassified” is full of them. Guaranteed to help him light up any dinner party. Father’s Day is on Sunday - order now! harpercollins.com.au/products/978...

The children yearn for the mines

Dads love telling crazy stories from history. Trust me - I’m a dad and telling crazy stories is my whole job. “If You’re Listening: Declassified” is full of them. Guaranteed to help him light up any dinner party. Father’s Day is on Sunday - order now! harpercollins.com.au/products/978...

After watching this video (from @mattbevan.bsky.social), my partner and I named our robot vacuum Garrison St Clair and every time he cleans the house we describe it as sending him on a special mission 🪖🎖️🫡 youtu.be/eoj72fCsNe4?...

NEW: AI music is going to be banned from Australia's top music charts unless it can prove that it was "substantially human-made" This comes weeks after a song with AI vocals became Australia's most played song www.abc.net.au/news/...