As others replies have said, it seems that her expertise was welcomed in the community.

Having spent my fair share of time in grad school, my experience with the arrogant scholar trope is...not exactly what this meme suggests. Academics certainly can have strongly held beliefs, but often are very good at gauging their own certainty. If a professor is lamenting that data taken around 3:17pm always looks bad, and the janitor says "well the electric tram goes by around then"

well, I have never met a professor or postdoc who wouldn't take that very seriously.