diff --git a/src/test/java/org/mastodon/mamut/feature/dimensionalityreduction/tsne/TSneTest.java b/src/test/java/org/mastodon/mamut/feature/dimensionalityreduction/tsne/TSneTest.java
index 81a3a46ef..62fa4fcae 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/mastodon/mamut/feature/dimensionalityreduction/tsne/TSneTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/mastodon/mamut/feature/dimensionalityreduction/tsne/TSneTest.java
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ void test()
 		}
 		logger.debug( "dimensions rows: {}, columns:{}", inputData.length, inputData[ 0 ].length );
 
-		final Random random = new Random( 42 );
-
 
 		// Recommendations for t-SNE defaults: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.manifold.TSNE.html
 		double perplexity = 30d; // recommended value is between 5 and 50