diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e68ff0df..5808266d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 
+- python3 explicit in vcf_collect [#452](https://github.com/nf-core/rnafusion/pull/452)
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - software-version.yml and in general version track-keeping was incomplete [#451](https://github.com/nf-core/rnafusion/pull/451)
diff --git a/bin/vcf_collect.py b/bin/vcf_collect.py
index 2401d2e8..a8ab85f4 100755
--- a/bin/vcf_collect.py
+++ b/bin/vcf_collect.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 import argparse
 import logging