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Tony Alves

@tonyhopedale.com
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Was @OccupySTM on Twitter(RIP). Scholarly pubs professional w/tech focus: books, journals, multimedia, reference, CME, workflow, standards, research integrity, AI/ML. My blog: tonyhopedale.com SVP @HighWirePress - Opinions expressed here are my own

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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 13/07/2026
We aren’t bystanders to science & scholarship, we are part of the infrastructure helping scientific evidence survive. I’ve summarized a webinar where a useful tool, developed by Union of Concerned Scientists, is used for tracking attacks on the scientific record. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/fight...
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Fighting Back to Protect the Scientific Record
Those of us who work in scholarly publishing and research communication are not bystanders to science and scholarship, we are part of the research infrastructure that helps scientific evidence survive...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 07/04/2026
A special blog post covering two issues that have been occupying a lot of my time, one personal, one professional. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/obey
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Obey?
The No Kings rally took place this past weekend and so for me it was a double protest month. I have been "standing out" in the town common the second Saturday of every month since last spring, along w...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 19/02/2026
New blog post! "Robots & Recent Reads" I was invited to participate in a panel at the recent NISO Plus conference, "Keeping the Robots in Line: Provisioning Access to Content for AI Systems". Read a write up of my presentation focused on product development impact. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/robot...
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Robots and Recent Reads
I'm currently attending the NISO Plus conference in Baltimore, having been invited to participate in a panel, "Keeping the Robots in Line: Provisioning Access to Content for AI Systems", providing a p...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 13/01/2026
Over the past few months I’ve taken my friends on a D&D adventure using ChatGPT, and the great thing about the experience, from my perspective as the Dungeon Master, is that the adventure isn't just unfolding for the players, it's unfolding for me too! tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/playi...
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Playing D&D with ChatGPT - Part 1
Happy New Year! I am ending 2025 with a blog post not about peer review, not about research integrity, not about workflow systems, and not about persistent identifiers. Here is the first of a two-part...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 09/10/2025
I'm heading to Frankfurt. Here's a short reflection on my 20+ years attending the @buchmesse.de along with my agenda. Also, a few @peerreviewweek.bsky.social activities I participated in & a preview of activities that me & colleagues have ahead of us this fall. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/along...
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Along the Main
My first Frankfurt Book Fair was in 2001, the year before the launch of the Euro as a physical currency. I remember exchanging my dollars for marks and thinking about how this German currency would so...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 06/09/2025
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Up Last - Peer Review Under Pressure
September is upon us and so is the Peer Review Congress and Peer Review Week! So, in anticipation of both, I've timed the last issue of my five part series to come out the first day of September.
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 02/09/2025
New blog post: Peer Review is the gold standard of quality control, but it is increasingly facing intense scrutiny. I explore why the system is breaking, where the innovation lies, and how it might be reimagined for a more resilient and equitable future. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-la...
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Up Last - Peer Review Under Pressure
September is upon us and so is the Peer Review Congress and Peer Review Week! So, in anticipation of both, I've timed the last issue of my five part series to come out the first day of September.
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 11/08/2025
Once seen as the unshakable leader of global research, U.S. science in 2025 faces policy shifts from Washington that are reshaping the entire research landscape—curbing diversity, restricting language, and tightening federal control over scholarly communication. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-th...
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Up Third - Global Realignment
This week, in Part 4: As U.S. science policy becomes increasingly entangled with ideological mandates, researchers around the world are watching and repositioning. Meanwhile, nations like China, India...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 06/08/2025
As U.S. science policy becomes entangled w/ ideology, researchers are watching. Meanwhile, nations like China, India, & those across Europe are investing in openness, infrastructure, & leadership. The result, a rebalancing of scientific influence across the globe. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-th...
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Up Third - Global Realignment
This week, in Part 4: As U.S. science policy becomes increasingly entangled with ideological mandates, researchers around the world are watching and repositioning. Meanwhile, nations like China, India...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 28/07/2025
Latest post in my five part series summarizing the themes and topics discussed at the various conferences and meetings I attended in the first half of 2025. #ResearchIntergrity #Trust #Papermills #Transparency #PublishorPerish tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-se...
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Up Second - Trust
This week, in Part 3, I explore a growing crisis, trust in science and scholarship. As the scholarly record is increasingly tested by fraud, papermills, misconduct, and political interference, the pub...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 22/07/2025
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 18/07/2025
Part 2 of my blog post series: Deep dive into transformative & troubling role AI is playing across the publishing lifecycle; tools that promise speed & scale, concerns re ethics & equity; AI reshapes how science is created, evaluated, & shared. Also more fake tweets! tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-fi...
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Up First - AI
Last week I kicked off a series of blog posts by summarizing what I intend to discuss over the next few weeks. Part 1 of the series explored four major forces reshaping scholarly publishing, the rise ...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 13/07/2025
Kicking off a 5-part series on what I’ve learned so far in 2025. This post features a fun twist: imagined tweets from the R2R conference, generated from my notes w/ help from ChatGPT. I used to live-tweet at conferences but it gave up when Twitter went toxic. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/halfw...
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Halfway to Somewhere
As we've reached the midpoint in a year that has seen many twists and turns in the proverbial road, I will spend the next few weeks reviewing what I've learned during my travels along that road, from ...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 17/04/2025
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What does openRxiv mean for bioRxiv/medRxiv? How did biologists embrace preprints? And what's the future of the scientific article? Fun talking with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...
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spotLights Ep 8: preLights in conversation with Richard Sever
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 13/04/2025
The Méduse shipwreck was caused by poor judgment of its captain who was appointed for political reasons. My essay, constructed from recent conversations, reflects on the state of academic freedom, a shift in scientific progress, & determination to persevere. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/crony...
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Cronyism, Ideology, and the Fight for Academic Freedom
In 1816, the French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of Mauritania. The shipwreck wasn’t caused by bad weather or a battle, but by the poor judgment of its captain who had been appointed for p...
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HighWire Press @highwirepress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
How can publishers and researchers uphold research integrity in an evolving digital landscape? At R2R 2025, industry leaders explored Trust Indicators—key metrics designed to enhance transparency and credibility in scholarly publishing. Read Tony's blog post: www.highwirepress.com/blog/researc...
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Research Integrity & Trust Indicators at R2R 2025
Explore key insights from R2R 2025 on research integrity, trust indicators, and efforts to combat misinformation in scholarly publishing.
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 25/03/2025
I love collaborating! @cadmoremedia.bsky.social @violaineig.bsky.social
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 23/03/2025
Trying to get a head start on the week, but someone else has a different idea…
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 14/03/2025
The Researcher to Reader Conference 2025: The Opening Keynote and the Great Debate www.highwirepress.com/blog/r2r-con...
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Blog - Scholarly Journal Articles | HighWire Press
Explore scholarly journal articles covering a wide range of disciplines and sources of information. Read our blogs to stay updated with the latest academic developments.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/03/2025
Don’t tell me that Trump/Musk are not trying to destroy Social Security. 30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits. Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket. We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 11/03/2025
Please stop by! London Book Fair Hall 3, Booth 2D58
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 07/03/2025
AND also published in CSE's Science Editor! Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 2—Tools That Facilitate Originally presented as a poster at @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I've organized sessions at CSE and SSP annual meetings on these topics! doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
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Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 2—Tools That Facilitate - Science Editor
Part 1 explored the innovations that are reshaping the peer review process, including community and third-party services that are expanding the reviewer pool, as well as preprint servers, overlay jour...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 07/03/2025
Just published in CSE's Science Editor! Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 1—Initiatives at the Forefront The initial concept was presented as a poster at the @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I will be following up with sessions at CSE and SSP! doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
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Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 1—Initiatives at the Forefront - Science Editor
The traditional peer review system, long regarded as the cornerstone of scholarly publishing, is facing growing scrutiny due to inefficiencies, biases, and barriers to inclusivity. In response, a wave...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 06/03/2025
I'll be moderating a session at CSE annual meeting called Scholarly Communications in a Rapidly Changing US Policy Landscape. I summarize some of what's been going on in a recent blog post: tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth... Check out the CSE meeting here: www.councilscienceeditors.org/annual-meeti...
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Truth vs Lies
Scientific progress has long been built on a foundation of truth; objective evidence, rigorous peer review, and open discourse. But when political interference distorts research funding, censors langu...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 27/02/2025
It was a lot of fun, always great to see old friends and make new ones! Thanks to my collaborators and the participants for making it another productive Peer Review Innovations workshop! #R2RConf
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 26/02/2025
Words of inspiration by BMJ‘s editor-in-chief, Kamran Abbasi, at the Researcher to Reader conference. #R2RConf
"In these days of outrage it is still possible to find glimmers of hope. Where there is outrage, we attempt to bring solutions and hope. Those solutions require will and action, and that's where we fall short as a society: we want hope without commitment, without effort. We see the evil only briefly, we hear it when it suits us, and speak of it as if it is quickly gone. In these tumultuous times, a multicrisis of climate, pandemic, and war, if you aren't feeling outrage and demanding action you aren't paying attention."
Adapted from Editor's Choice, The BMJ, 2nd April 2022
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 26/02/2025
I've included a sample of the executive orders that have led to widespread disruptions in scientific and health research funding, affecting both domestic and international programs. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
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Truth vs Lies
Scientific progress has long been built on a foundation of truth; objective evidence, rigorous peer review, and open discourse. But when political interference distorts research funding, censors langu...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 25/02/2025
My recent blog post: a sample of the exec orders leading to widespread disruptions in science & health research. Many in the scholarly community are concerned about executive orders - they erode public trust & hinder advancements in research & science. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
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Truth vs Lies
Scientific progress has long been built on a foundation of truth; objective evidence, rigorous peer review, and open discourse. But when political interference distorts research funding, censors langu...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 25/02/2025
Great start to the Peer Review Innovation workshop. Working with feedback from last year on challenges, plan to get to solutions by the end of tomorrow! #R2RConf
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 25/02/2025
This blog post examines how recent policies threaten not just individual researchers, but scientific inquiry as a whole. In an era where misinformation masquerades as policy, the distinction between truth and lies has never been more consequential. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
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Truth vs Lies
Scientific progress has long been built on a foundation of truth; objective evidence, rigorous peer review, and open discourse. But when political interference distorts research funding, censors langu...
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Researcher to Reader Conference @r2rconf.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In just a few hours the Great Hall at BMA House in London will be filled with Librarians, Editors, Publishers, Researchers and many more, working together to improve scholarly communications, at #R2RConf. See you there?
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 23/02/2025
It’s at the BMA House, wander by if you’re around!
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HighWire Press @highwirepress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Trust is key in today’s digital world. As cybercrime rises, Digital ID wallets offer a secure way to manage identities—but challenges remain. In this post, @tonyhopedale.com explores the 3 pillars of digital identity & best practices for a trustworthy system. www.highwirepress.com/blog/buildin...
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The Evolution of Digital Identity: Building Trust in a Virtual World
Explore the evolution of digital identity, from federated systems and electronic IDs to digital wallets. Learn about the challenges, global strategies, and innovations driving secure, user-centric, an...
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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you are about to create your own preprint review group, navigating the technical setup can be daunting. How do you pick the right tools for the job? Our February Community Call will help you answer those questions and find the best solution! Register below 👇
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ASAPbio Community Call: Six ways to share preprint reviews. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Preprint review is picking up speed, with over 20 communities operating in this space. If you are about to create your own review group, navigating the technical setup can be daunting. How do you…
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 13/02/2025
Aunt Phyllis, a profile in courage (according to R. Reich) “In 2022, Fong’s office launched an investigation of Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, Neuralink. With Fong out of the picture, that investigation now appears on its way to being closed.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Profiles in courage
Friends,
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 12/02/2025
Go Aunt Phyllis! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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8 Inspectors General Fired by Trump File Lawsuit Seeking Reinstatement
The case is the latest to challenge a wave of actions by President Trump that brazenly violated legal limits on his power.
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 12/02/2025
Congratulations Bill!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/02/2025
This is Oligarchy. The three richest men in the world have become $196 BILLION richer since Donald Trump was elected. $196 billion for three men in 99 days. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 12/02/2025
Articles are submitted by members of the Academy of Public Health... The member must be a co- author, but not necessarily the first, senior or corresponding author... The journal does not accept submissions from non-members of the Academy. 🤔 publichealth.realclearjournals.org
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griffey @griffey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
It’s real! Order yours today! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254949...
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 08/02/2025
My Aunt Phyllis, fired IG from Dept. of Agriculture mentioned by @maddow.msnbc.com Among things under investigation, Neuralink… youtu.be/2D2XAsS7TWg
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'Illegal on its face': Trump wildly oversteps with federal firing spree
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 08/02/2025
Sign that spring is right around the corner. The hens have begun to lay!
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 07/02/2025
In the novel 1984, "Newspeak" is a language designed to control thought by limiting vocabulary and eliminating words associated with critical thinking or dissent; It's the government-controlled language that aims to restrict people's ability to express complex ideas or rebel against the regime.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The pendulum has swung to Bluesky (of course heavily influenced by my own tweets) for my most recent paper: Altmetric attention score (36 Bluesky users, 12 Twitter users)
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 07/02/2025
Anyone seeing a sudden increase in (what I assume are) sexy bots? I’ve been reporting them as they follow me.
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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
She's still on the website. A Bush appointee who has served for more than 2 decades across parties and administrations.
US Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General screenshot, January 29, 2025 DC time:
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Phyllis K. Fong, Inspector General

Phyllis K. Fong was sworn in as Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on December 2, 2002.  Ms. Fong was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate."
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Tony Alves @tonyhopedale.com · 29/01/2025
That's my Aunt Phyllis! She's dedicated her whole career to public service. One of the most honest, hardworking, authentic, soft-spoken, smart and loving persons I've ever known - and she knows how to fight!!! You are an inspiration! www.aol.com/usda-inspect...
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USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House fired her Friday.
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