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Country: Sweden
Host: Stockholm University
Study Level: Postdoctoral
Funding Type: Fully Funded
Deadline: 31 August 2026

The Stockholm University Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027 offers an exciting research opportunity in astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy. The fellowship focuses on studying the Haro11 galaxy using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data, allowing researchers to investigate ionizing photon escape, embedded star clusters, and black hole-powered sources in a world-class research environment.

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• Hold a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in a relevant field
• Complete the doctoral degree before the employment decision or start date
• Ideally have obtained their PhD within the last three years
• Demonstrate strong research skills in astrophysics or related disciplines
• Have expertise in integral field spectroscopy and photoionization or nebular modelling (preferred)
• Meet Stockholm University's employment requirements

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The single greatest investment in the world

Sixty seconds. That's how long Nita Sweeney could run at the start of this book, before her lungs and her depression both told her to stop. I sat with that number for a while, because it's such an unglamorous, unheroic starting point, and that's exactly why it wrecked me a little. This isn't a story that starts with someone athletic finding their edge. It starts with someone barely able to move, at forty-nine, chronically depressed, sometimes manic, deciding to try anyway.

What got me immediately is how unflinching Sweeney is about what depression actually feels like from the inside, not the tidy, distant version you get in a lot of memoirs, but the real, grinding weight of it, the mornings that feel impossible before anything has even happened yet. She doesn't romanticize her illness or her healing. She just tells the truth about both, which made every small win later in the book feel earned rather than inspirational-poster easy.

Her dog is where this book really found its heart, for me. There's something so specific and moving about an animal who doesn't know or care about your diagnosis, who just wants to go outside, who becomes, almost by accident, the reason you get off the couch on the days you have absolutely no reason of your own. Watching that relationship evolve from simple companionship into something closer to a lifeline felt so genuine, never sentimentalized, just quietly, steadily true.

The running itself is written with such honesty about how slow and unglamorous real progress actually is. Sweeney doesn't skip from sixty seconds to marathon in some triumphant montage. She shows the actual middle, the plateaus, the days her mind fought her harder than her body did, the moments she wanted to quit and the specific, unglamorous reasons she didn't. I found that pacing so much more useful than a typical redemption arc, because real recovery, from depression or anything else, rarely moves in a straight line, and Sweeney refuses to pretend hers did.

What surprised me most is how much she writes about running as a relationship with her own mind rather than just her body. She describes learning to notice her depressive and manic thoughts almost like weather patterns she could observe without being completely swept away by them, and that specific kind of mental distance, built one mile at a time, felt like the real transformation underneath the physical one.

By the time she's actually running her first marathon, exhausted, doubting herself, her dog's steady presence somewhere in the emotional background of the whole journey even if not literally beside her on race day, I was fully, embarrassingly invested. Crossing that finish line felt like watching someone reclaim something depression had spent years trying to convince her she didn't have.

A few lessons that stayed with me:

1. You don't need to be strong before you start, strength can be built by starting. Sixty seconds was enough to begin, which is a much more honest and accessible starting point than most fitness or recovery narratives offer.

2. Movement can create mental distance from depressive thoughts without erasing them. Sweeney doesn't claim running cured her, she describes learning to observe her mind's patterns rather than being completely controlled by them.

3. Recovery rarely moves in a straight line, and that's normal, not failure. The plateaus and setbacks in her training mirror the nonlinear reality of healing from depression itself.

4. Companionship, even nonhuman, can be a genuine lifeline. Her dog's simple, consistent presence became one of the most reliable forces pulling her back toward life on her hardest days.

5. Small, consistent effort compounds into transformation most people wouldn't believe was possible. The distance between sixty seconds and twenty-six miles wasn't covered by motivation, it was covered by showing up again and again, especially when she didn't want to.

If you've ever struggled with depression, or loved someone who has, or simply needed proof that transformation doesn't require starting from strength, this book earns its inspiration honestly. It doesn't oversell running as a cure-all, and that restraint is exactly what makes its hope feel real. I closed it wanting to go for a walk immediately, not because I thought it would fix anything instantly, but because Sweeney made me believe that showing up, even for sixty seconds, actually counts.

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I once spent forty-five minutes deciding which brand of peanut butter to buy. Not exaggerating. Natural vs. regular? Crunchy vs. smooth? What about the sugar content? The environmental impact of the palm oil? Did I deserve the expensive one? Would the cheap one make me feel like a failure? I stood in that aisle, phone in hand, reading labels and reviews, while my partner texted from home: "Did you get kidnapped by the peanut butter?"

That is overthinking. And if you know, you know.

Joseph Nguyen's The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions is a slim, punchy book written for people like me, people who can turn a simple choice into a philosophical crisis, who run every decision through a mental simulation of every possible outcome, who exhaust themselves before they have even done anything. Nguyen is the author of the bestselling Don't Believe Everything You Think, and this book continues his signature style: short chapters, bolded takeaways, and a direct, almost blunt writing style that feels like a friend shaking you gently by the shoulders.

What I appreciated most is that Nguyen does not pathologize overthinking. He does not tell you that you are broken or anxious or neurotic (though you might be, and that is fine). Instead, he reframes overthinking as a well-intentioned but deeply inefficient strategy. Your brain is trying to keep you safe by analyzing every variable. The problem is that the world is too complex to be analyzed into certainty. You will never have all the information. You will never eliminate all risk. And waiting for certainty is just waiting to stay stuck.

The book is structured around a few core principles and then applied to different domains of decision-making: career, relationships, money, daily choices, and major life transitions. Each chapter ends with a "Decision-Making Shortcut"—a simple rule or question that cuts through the noise. For example: Would I regret this more if I did it, or if I didn't? Or: What would I tell my best friend to do?

The book is not groundbreaking in the sense of offering entirely new ideas. You have probably encountered some of these concepts before, the 5-Second Rule, the 80/20 principle, the concept of "satisficing" over "maximizing." But Nguyen's gift is synthesis and delivery. He takes ideas from psychology, productivity, and philosophy and boils them down into actionable, bite-sized chunks that you can actually remember when you are standing in the peanut butter aisle.

5 Lessons:

1. Overthinking is not the same as thinking carefully.
Nguyen draws a crucial distinction early on: careful thinking is intentional, time-bound, and directed toward action. Overthinking is repetitive, circular, and designed to delay action. If you are gathering information, weighing options, and then making a choice, that is careful thinking. If you are replaying the same variables, imagining disaster scenarios, and still not deciding, that is overthinking. The first is useful. The second is a trap. The goal is not to stop thinking. It is to stop thinking in circles.

2. Most decisions are reversible. Act like it.
One of the biggest drivers of overthinking is the belief that the decision you are making is permanent and life-altering. Nguyen challenges this directly. Unless you are choosing a spouse, having a child, or jumping out of a plane without a parachute, most decisions can be undone. You can switch jobs. You can move back. You can apologize. You can change your mind. The fear of making the "wrong" choice keeps you stuck, but the truth is that few choices are truly one-way doors. Ask yourself: If I make this choice and it turns out badly, can I undo it? If the answer is yes, stop overthinking and decide.

3. Perfection is the enemy of done.
Nguyen quotes Voltaire (or maybe he quotes someone quoting Voltaire): "Perfect is the enemy of good." Overthinkers are often perfectionists in disguise. You are not trying to make a good decision; you are trying to make the best possible decision, which is a moving target that does not exist. The solution is to aim for "good enough"—what psychologist Herbert Simon called satisficing. A good enough decision made today is infinitely better than the perfect decision made never. Choose good. Choose done. Choose moving on with your life.

4. Your feelings are not data.
This was the lesson that hit me hardest. Overthinkers often treat their anxiety as evidence. I feel nervous about this decision, so it must be risky. I feel uncertain, so I must need more information. Nguyen argues that anxiety is not a sign that you are making the wrong choice. Anxiety is a sign that you are making *a* choice, and your brain, which prefers the devil it knows, is throwing a tantrum about the uncertainty. The solution is not to wait until you feel calm. The solution is to decide anyway, and let your feelings catch up later. Feelings follow actions far more often than they precede them.

5. The cost of not deciding is higher than the cost of deciding wrong.
Overthinkers are exquisitely sensitive to the potential downside of their choices. What if I pick the wrong restaurant and everyone is disappointed? What if I take the job and hate it? What if I say the wrong thing and they never speak to me again? But Nguyen asks you to consider the flip side: what is the cost of not deciding? The lost time. The lost opportunity. The slow erosion of your confidence as you realize you cannot trust yourself to act. In most cases, the cost of indecision is higher than the cost of a wrong decision. A wrong decision gives you information. Indecision gives you nothing but a stuck life.

The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions is not a book for people who want to understand the psychology of rumination. It is a book for people who are tired of standing in the peanut butter aisle. Who are exhausted by their own mental committee. Who have missed opportunities not because they chose poorly, but because they could not choose at all.

Joseph Nguyen has written a short, practical, compassionately blunt guide for the indecisive. He will not hold your hand through every decision. He will not promise that you will never make a mistake. What he will do is give you permission to decide, imperfectly, anxiously, without all the information, and trust that you can handle whatever comes next.

Because you can. You have before. And the only way to prove it to yourself is to finally, finally choose.

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