diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bc15e71..80110d4 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ def run(self):
     version="0.10.1",
     license="Free for non-commercial use",
     description="Create images and volumes from photon lists generated by a multiscaler",
-    long_description="%s\n%s"
-    % (
-        re.compile("^.. start-badges.*^.. end-badges", re.M | re.S).sub(
-            "", read("README.rst")
-        ),
-        re.sub(":[a-z]+:`~?(.*?)`", r"``\1``", read("CHANGELOG.rst")),
-    ),
+    long_description=\
+        "PySight is an application aimed at generating multidimensional images"
+        "from photon lists. The main use case is to parse ``.lst`` files which"
+        "were generated by FAST ComTec's multiscaler, but other photon lists"
+        "can also be parsed.\n\nPySight was featured in"
+        "`this <https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-5-9-1104>`_"
+        "*Optica* article, and was created in Pablo Blinder's Lab at Tel Aviv University.",
     author="Hagai Har-Gil",
     author_email="hagaihargil@protonmail.com",
     url=r"https://github.com/PBLab/python-pysight/",
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def run(self):
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
     ],
-    keywords=["multiscaler", "photon counting"],
+    keywords=["multiscaler", "photon counting", "imaging"],
     cmdclass={"build_ext": CustomBuildExtCommand},
     install_requires=[
         "numpy >= 1.16",