diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 624924ec5..30638cea6 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 import glob
 import os
 import sphinx_rtd_theme
-import subprocess
 import sys
 import textwrap
 
@@ -207,12 +206,7 @@
 # on_rtd is whether we are on readthedocs.org, this line of code grabbed from docs.readthedocs.org
 on_rtd = os.environ.get('READTHEDOCS', None) == 'True'
 
-if on_rtd: # rtd doesn't run Makefile, so we have to copy assets ourself
-    subprocess.call(
-        'mkdir -p _build/html/docs/; cp -r assets _build/html/docs/',
-        shell=True,
-    )
-else:  # only import and set the theme if we're building docs locally
+if not on_rtd:  # only import and set the theme if we're building docs locally
     import sphinx_rtd_theme
     html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
     html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()]
diff --git a/doc/requirements.in b/doc/requirements.in
index f45eb3d06..a94a59ecd 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.in
+++ b/doc/requirements.in
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ coverxygen==1.8.1
 breathe==4.35.0
 myst-parser==2.0.0
 sphinx-tippy==0.4.1
-sphinxcontrib-bibtex==2.6.1
+sphinxcontrib-bibtex==2.6.5
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index 8293d9132..7aa210d34 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.10
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
-#    pip-compile doc/requirements.in
+#    pip-compile --output-file=doc/requirements.txt doc/requirements.in
 #
 alabaster==0.7.13
     # via sphinx
@@ -11,16 +11,15 @@ babel==2.13.1
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
     # via sphinx-tippy
 breathe==4.35.0
-    # via -r /tmp/requirements.in
+    # via -r doc/requirements.in
 certifi==2023.11.17
     # via requests
 charset-normalizer==3.3.2
     # via requests
 coverxygen==1.8.1
-    # via -r /tmp/requirements.in
+    # via -r doc/requirements.in
 docutils==0.20.1
     # via
-    #   -r /tmp/requirements.in
     #   breathe
     #   myst-parser
     #   pybtex-docutils
@@ -49,10 +48,10 @@ mdit-py-plugins==0.4.0
 mdurl==0.1.2
     # via markdown-it-py
 myst-parser==2.0.0
-    # via -r /tmp/requirements.in
+    # via -r doc/requirements.in
 packaging==23.2
     # via sphinx
-pybtex==0.24.0
+pybtex==0.26.0
     # via
     #   pybtex-docutils
     #   sphinxcontrib-bibtex
@@ -69,16 +68,14 @@ requests==2.31.0
     #   sphinx
     #   sphinx-tippy
 six==1.16.0
-    # via
-    #   latexcodec
-    #   pybtex
+    # via latexcodec
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0
     # via sphinx
 soupsieve==2.5
     # via beautifulsoup4
 sphinx==7.2.6
     # via
-    #   -r /tmp/requirements.in
+    #   -r doc/requirements.in
     #   breathe
     #   myst-parser
     #   sphinx-rtd-theme
@@ -91,13 +88,13 @@ sphinx==7.2.6
     #   sphinxcontrib-qthelp
     #   sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml
 sphinx-rtd-theme==2.0.0
-    # via -r /tmp/requirements.in
+    # via -r doc/requirements.in
 sphinx-tippy==0.4.1
-    # via -r /tmp/requirements.in
+    # via -r doc/requirements.in
 sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.7
     # via sphinx
-sphinxcontrib-bibtex==2.6.1
-    # via -r /tmp/requirements.in
+sphinxcontrib-bibtex==2.6.5
+    # via -r doc/requirements.in
 sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.5
     # via sphinx
 sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.4