diff --git a/py4DSTEM/__init__.py b/py4DSTEM/__init__.py
index 247c6babc..e26f24c78 100644
--- a/py4DSTEM/__init__.py
+++ b/py4DSTEM/__init__.py
@@ -1,21 +1,6 @@
 from py4DSTEM.version import __version__
 from emdfile import tqdmnd
 
-# pyparsing >= 3.3 raises PyparsingDeprecationWarning -- a UserWarning
-# subclass, so it is displayed by default -- whenever a dependency such as
-# older matplotlib mathtext calls its camelCase compatibility API. This fires
-# once per rendered label and floods plotting output with messages like
-# "'parseString' deprecated - use 'parse_string'". There is nothing a py4DSTEM
-# user can do about it, so silence that category here.
-import warnings as _warnings
-
-try:
-    from pyparsing import PyparsingDeprecationWarning as _PyparsingDeprecationWarning
-
-    _warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=_PyparsingDeprecationWarning)
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-
 from importlib.metadata import packages_distributions
 
 is_package_lite = "py4DSTEM-lite" in packages_distributions()["py4DSTEM"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a220b9cf5..242f332f2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@
         "h5py >= 3.2.0",
         "hdf5plugin >= 4.1.3",
         "ncempy >= 1.8.1",
-        "matplotlib >= 3.2.2",
+        # matplotlib < 3.11 calls pyparsing's deprecated camelCase API from
+        # mathtext, which floods plotting output with deprecation warnings
+        # under pyparsing >= 3.3; require 3.11 wherever python allows it
+        "matplotlib >= 3.2.2; python_version < '3.11'",
+        "matplotlib >= 3.11; python_version >= '3.11'",
         "scikit-image >= 0.17.2",
         "scikit-learn >= 0.23.2",
         "scikit-optimize >= 0.9.0",