diff --git a/glicid/packages/science.scm b/glicid/packages/science.scm
index ae2c0ab..1b0a085 100644
--- a/glicid/packages/science.scm
+++ b/glicid/packages/science.scm
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     (propagated-inputs `(("gdb" ,gdb)
                          ("sqlite" ,sqlite)
                          ("openmpi" ,openmpi)
-                         ("python" ,python)
+                         ("python" ,python-3.8)
                          ("python-numpy" ,python-numpy)
                          ("python-matplotlib" ,python-matplotlib)
                          ("python-sphinx" ,python-sphinx)