diff --git a/.binder/environment.yml b/.binder/environment.yml
index db17cbf4..09dc3e63 100644
--- a/.binder/environment.yml
+++ b/.binder/environment.yml
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ dependencies:
   - pip
   - pip:
       - gmsh
-      - jupyterlab>=4.1
-      - jupytext>=1.16.1
-      - pygments>=2.17.0
+      # - jupyterlab>=4.1
+      # - jupytext>=1.16.1
+      # - pygments>=2.17.0
       - trame-vtk
       - trame-vuetify
diff --git a/.binder/postBuild b/.binder/postBuild
index 2ed6d127..62962a22 100644
--- a/.binder/postBuild
+++ b/.binder/postBuild
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ echo
 echo Install jupyter extensions
 echo
 
-# install required python packages
+# install required python packages for jupyter
 python3 -m pip install "jupyter-server-proxy"
-python3 -m pip install "jupyterlab-quarto>=0.3.3"
+# python3 -m pip install "jupyterlab-quarto>=0.3.3"
 python3 -m pip install "jupytext>=1.16.1"
 python3 -m pip install "trame_jupyter_extension"
 
-# We install the local code "properly" - no point in a dev build here
+# We install the local code "properly" - no point in an in-place build here
 
 echo
 echo Install local UW3
diff --git a/joss-paper/paper.md b/joss-paper/paper.md
index 559479b3..8d16890a 100644
--- a/joss-paper/paper.md
+++ b/joss-paper/paper.md
@@ -14,11 +14,9 @@ authors:
     corresponding: true # (This is how to denote the corresponding author)
     affiliation: "1" # (Multiple affiliations must be quoted)
   - name: John Mansour
-    equal-contrib: true
     orcid: 0000-0001-5865-1664
     affiliation: "2"
   - name: Julian Giordani
-    equal-contrib: true
     orcid: 0000-0003-4515-9296
     affiliation: "3"
   - name: Matt Knepley
@@ -120,6 +118,12 @@ contains material / time derivatives of the unknowns which are not present in th
 
 # Discussion
 
+Aim to provide strong support to users to develop sophisticated mathematical models and to be able to interrogate those models during development and at run-time.
+
+Seemless parallelism
+
+Resuable documentation that is accessible in rich-text format in jupyter notebooks for model development and analysis but is also incorporated into the API documentation in the same rich format.
+
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