diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/starfish/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/starfish/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 38f24111174..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/starfish/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, click
-, dataclasses
-, jsonschema
-, matplotlib
-, numpy
-, pandas
-, regional
-, semantic-version
-, scikitimage
-, scikitlearn
-, scipy
-, showit
-, slicedimage
-, sympy
-, tqdm
-, trackpy
-, validators
-, xarray
-, ipywidgets
-, pytest
-, pythonOlder
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "starfish";
-  version = "0.2.1";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "d635ef7b412b5781d6f98cd080b45098de6f3c7f7303e929b07c88b49d98ff12";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    click
-    jsonschema
-    matplotlib
-    numpy
-    pandas
-    regional
-    semantic-version
-    scikitimage
-    scikitlearn
-    scipy
-    showit
-    slicedimage
-    sympy
-    tqdm
-    trackpy
-    validators
-    xarray
-    ipywidgets
-    ] ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.7") [ dataclasses ];
-
-  checkInputs = [
-    pytest
-  ];
-
-  postConfigure = ''
-    substituteInPlace REQUIREMENTS.txt \
-      --replace "slicedimage==3.1.1" "slicedimage"
-  '';
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    # a few tests < 5% require
-    rm -rf starfish/test/full_pipelines/*
-    pytest starfish \
-      --ignore starfish/core/config/test/test_config.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/experiment/builder/test/test_build.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/experiment/test/test_experiment.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/image/_filter/test/test_reduce.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/image/_registration/_apply_transform/test/test_warp.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/image/_registration/_learn_transform/test/test_translation.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/image/_registration/test/test_transforms_list.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/imagestack/test/test_max_proj.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/recipe/test/test_recipe.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/recipe/test/test_runnable.py \
-      --ignore starfish/core/test/test_profiler.py
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Pipelines and pipeline components for the analysis of image-based transcriptomics data";
-    homepage = "https://spacetx-starfish.readthedocs.io/en/latest/";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];
-    broken = true; # incompatible with latest python-dateutil, scikit-image
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e823d651cee..650288022f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6768,8 +6768,6 @@ in {
 
   sslyze = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sslyze { };
 
-  starfish = callPackage ../development/python-modules/starfish { };
-
   starlette = callPackage ../development/python-modules/starlette { };
 
   staticjinja = callPackage ../development/python-modules/staticjinja { };