diff --git a/.github/workflows/dev-ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/dev-ci.yaml
index 40e9b86..6d06b0c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dev-ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dev-ci.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 name: Upstream nightly version CI
 on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
   schedule:
     # weekly tests, Sundays at midnight
     - cron: "0 0 * * 0"
diff --git a/devtools/conda-envs/nightly.yaml b/devtools/conda-envs/nightly.yaml
index 5ea8f9e..a92291a 100644
--- a/devtools/conda-envs/nightly.yaml
+++ b/devtools/conda-envs/nightly.yaml
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ name: openff-nagl-test
 channels:
   - openeye
   - conda-forge
-  - pytorch-nightly
 dependencies:
     # Base depends
   - python
   - pip
+  - numpy =1
 
   # UI
   - click
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ dependencies:
   - openeye-toolkits
 
   # gnn
-  - pytorch
-  - torchvision
-  - torchaudio
+  - pytorch ~=2.6
 
   # database
   - pyarrow
@@ -63,5 +61,9 @@ dependencies:
     - git+https://github.com/openforcefield/openff-toolkit.git@main
     - git+https://github.com/openforcefield/openff-recharge.git@main
     - git+https://github.com/openforcefield/openff-units.git@main
-  
+    - --pre
+    - --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu
+    - torch
+    - torchvision
+    - torchaudio