diff --git a/research/tests/Project.toml b/research/tests/Project.toml
index 17d4dd72..60ed4a3e 100644
--- a/research/tests/Project.toml
+++ b/research/tests/Project.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 AdaptiveRejectionSampling = "c75e803d-635f-53bd-ab7d-544e482d8c75"
 AdvancedHMC = "0bf59076-c3b1-5ca4-86bd-e02cd72cde3d"
 BenchmarkTools = "6e4b80f9-dd63-53aa-95a3-0cdb28fa8baf"
-Comonicon = "863f3e99-da2a-4334-8734-de3dacbe5542"
 DiffResults = "163ba53b-c6d8-5494-b064-1a9d43ac40c5"
 Distributions = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
 DynamicPPL = "366bfd00-2699-11ea-058f-f148b4cae6d8"
diff --git a/research/tests/runtests.jl b/research/tests/runtests.jl
index 51d25f9a..62569e34 100644
--- a/research/tests/runtests.jl
+++ b/research/tests/runtests.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-using Comonicon, ReTest
+using ReTest
 
 # include the source code for experimental HMC
 include("../src/relativistic_hmc.jl")
@@ -6,6 +6,4 @@ include("../src/relativistic_hmc.jl")
 # include the tests for experimental HMC
 include("relativistic_hmc.jl")
 
-Comonicon.@main function runtests(patterns...; dry::Bool=false)
-    return retest(patterns...; dry=dry, verbose=Inf)
-end
+retest(; dry=false, verbose=Inf)
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index f3821481..558e3d43 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ ADTypes = "47edcb42-4c32-4615-8424-f2b9edc5f35b"
 AbstractMCMC = "80f14c24-f653-4e6a-9b94-39d6b0f70001"
 Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
 Bijectors = "76274a88-744f-5084-9051-94815aaf08c4"
-Comonicon = "863f3e99-da2a-4334-8734-de3dacbe5542"
 ComponentArrays = "b0b7db55-cfe3-40fc-9ded-d10e2dbeff66"
 Distributions = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
 FillArrays = "1a297f60-69ca-5386-bcde-b61e274b549b"
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 642f76d3..d0fb6ea8 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-using Comonicon
 using FillArrays
 using AdvancedHMC: AdvancedHMC
 using LogDensityProblems: LogDensityProblems
@@ -32,10 +31,7 @@ if GROUP == "All" || GROUP == "AdvancedHMC"
     include("abstractmcmc.jl")
     include("mcmcchains.jl")
     include("constructors.jl")
-
-    Comonicon.@main function runtests(patterns...; dry::Bool=false)
-        return retest(patterns...; dry=dry, verbose=Inf)
-    end
+    retest(; dry=false, verbose=Inf)
 end
 
 if GROUP == "All" || GROUP == "Experimental"