diff --git a/tools/azure_dependencies.sh b/tools/azure_dependencies.sh
index abea6af8e86..8880e6478fa 100755
--- a/tools/azure_dependencies.sh
+++ b/tools/azure_dependencies.sh
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ if [ "${TEST_MODE}" == "pip" ]; then
 elif [ "${TEST_MODE}" == "pip-pre" ]; then
 	${SCRIPT_DIR}/install_pre_requirements.sh
 	python -m pip install $STD_ARGS --pre -e .[test_extra]
-	echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=MNE_TEST_ALLOW_SKIP].*(Requires (spm|brainstorm) dataset|Requires MNE-C|CUDA not|Numba not| on Windows|MNE_FORCE_SERIAL|PySide6 causes segfaults|neo).*"
-	# https://github.com/python-quantities/python-quantities/issues/262
-	python -m pip uninstall -yq neo
+	echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=MNE_TEST_ALLOW_SKIP].*(Requires (spm|brainstorm) dataset|Requires MNE-C|CUDA not|Numba not| on Windows|MNE_FORCE_SERIAL|PySide6 causes segfaults).*"
 else
 	echo "Unknown run type ${TEST_MODE}"
 	exit 1
diff --git a/tools/github_actions_dependencies.sh b/tools/github_actions_dependencies.sh
index 985ed838915..4e7300cd40b 100755
--- a/tools/github_actions_dependencies.sh
+++ b/tools/github_actions_dependencies.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,3 @@ echo ""
 echo "::group::Installing test dependencies using pip"
 python -m pip install $STD_ARGS $INSTALL_ARGS .[$INSTALL_KIND]
 echo "::endgroup::"
-if [[ "${MNE_CI_KIND}" == "pip-pre" ]]; then
-	# https://github.com/python-quantities/python-quantities/issues/262
-	python -m pip uninstall -yq neo
-fi
diff --git a/tools/github_actions_env_vars.sh b/tools/github_actions_env_vars.sh
index ed116873caf..9f424ae5f48 100755
--- a/tools/github_actions_env_vars.sh
+++ b/tools/github_actions_env_vars.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ if [[ "$MNE_CI_KIND" == "pip"* ]]; then
         # We should test an eager import somewhere, might as well be here
         echo "EAGER_IMPORT=true" | tee -a $GITHUB_ENV
         # Make sure nothing unexpected is skipped
-        echo "MNE_TEST_ALLOW_SKIP=.*(Requires (spm|brainstorm) dataset|CUDA not|Numba not|PySide6 causes segfaults|neo).*" | tee -a $GITHUB_ENV
+        echo "MNE_TEST_ALLOW_SKIP=.*(Requires (spm|brainstorm) dataset|CUDA not|Numba not|PySide6 causes segfaults).*" | tee -a $GITHUB_ENV
     else
         echo "MNE_QT_BACKEND=PySide6" | tee -a $GITHUB_ENV
     fi
diff --git a/tools/install_pre_requirements.sh b/tools/install_pre_requirements.sh
index f996a35bdf2..84f4e27316f 100755
--- a/tools/install_pre_requirements.sh
+++ b/tools/install_pre_requirements.sh
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ python -m pip install $STD_ARGS \
 	"git+https://github.com/pyvista/pyvistaqt" \
 	"git+https://github.com/nilearn/nilearn" \
 	"git+https://github.com/pierreablin/picard" \
+	"git+https://github.com/the-siesta-group/edfio" \
 	https://gitlab.com/obob/pymatreader/-/archive/master/pymatreader-master.zip \
 	git+https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-qt-browser \
 	git+https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph \
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ python -m pip install $STD_ARGS \
 	git+https://github.com/h5io/h5io \
 	git+https://github.com/BUNPC/pysnirf2 \
 	git+https://github.com/the-siesta-group/edfio \
+	git+https://github.com/python-quantities/python-quantities \
 	trame trame-vtk trame-vuetify jupyter ipyevents ipympl openmeeg \
 	imageio-ffmpeg xlrd mffpy traitlets pybv eeglabio defusedxml \
 	antio