diff --git a/bin/slurm_calibrate.sh b/bin/slurm_calibrate.sh
index 35aa6bd6ce4ad8bd688182a87f496a2d669a7bae..98c45daedcaf5631efc55fc3ffd2c31f7d6c9143 100755
--- a/bin/slurm_calibrate.sh
+++ b/bin/slurm_calibrate.sh
@@ -25,12 +25,10 @@ echo "job ID: ${SLURM_JOB_ID:-none}"
 echo "hostname: $(hostname)"
 
 export CAL_NOTEBOOK_NAME="$notebook"
-export SLURM_JOB_ID="${SLURM_JOB_ID:-local}"
 
 # This is created by calibrate.py in CAL_WORKING_DIR
 setup_logger="setup-logging-nb.py"
 
-
 # make sure we use agg backend
 export MPLBACKEND=AGG
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8da10a662532e3e8bd41a69c265eb3babf115743..b8ce52d6d54df2a7be36b59fbd90f74a2c4ee64a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ install_requires = [
         "pymunge==0.1.3",
         "pypandoc==1.13",
         "python-dateutil==2.8.2",
-        "python-json-logger==2.0.7",
         "pyyaml==6.0.1",
         "pyzmq==25.1.2",
         "requests==2.29.0",