I was so privileged to know both her and Vera Rubin during my Carnegie years and it's hard to express just how awesome it is that major scientific facilities are being named in honor of these amazing humans and scientists. /fin

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I gave my talk (basically my thesis defense from a few months earlier) and noticed a silver-haired woman in the second row who I had not met, furiously knitting. When I finished, her hand shot up to ask first question. 2/

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Her question was incredibly insightful and harder to answer than anything I'd been asked at my defense. It made me look at my data in a new light and I am grateful for that. And that's how I met Nancy Roman ( who would come up to space related DTM seminars). 3/

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Apologies if you've heard this story before but with tomorrow's launch of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope I’m gonna tell it again. April 1997, I was a new postdoc at @carnegiescience.bsky.social 's Dept of Terrestrial Magnetism (now Earth & Planets Lab) and was asked to give dept seminar. 1/ 🔭

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Nice view of Lick observatory on flight from Phoenix to Oakland 🔭

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