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Maria Boyle works as a research microbiologist specialising in health and hygiene but is best known as the cartoonist and illustrator Twisteddoodles. She has published a number of scientific papers as well as a not-so-scientific book about having kids called The Newborn Identity. She lives in Dublin with her family and one-eyed cat.  

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