diff --git a/linkage_dag.py b/linkage_dag.py
index 6ef5374..9bb800d 100644
--- a/linkage_dag.py
+++ b/linkage_dag.py
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@
     )
 
     prep_environment_script_sequence = [
+        f"/snap/bin/gsutil cp gs://{bucket}/{gcs_folder}/vm_scripts/*.sh .",
         "cd /mnt/disks/data",
         "rm -rf run",
         "mkdir run",
@@ -364,7 +365,7 @@
 
     update_simhash_index = BashOperator(
         task_id="update_simhash_index",
-        bash_command=f'gcloud compute ssh jm3312@{gce_resource_id} --zone {gce_zone} --command "bash run_simhash_scripts.sh &"',
+        bash_command=f'gcloud compute ssh jm3312@{gce_resource_id} --zone {gce_zone} --command "bash run_simhash_scripts.sh &> log &"',
     )
 
     wait_for_simhash_index = GCSObjectExistenceSensor(
@@ -374,20 +375,9 @@
         deferrable=True
     )
 
-    ids_script_sequence = [
-        (
-            "python3 create_merge_ids.py --match_dir usable_ids --prev_id_mapping_dir prev_id_mapping "
-            "--merge_file id_mapping.jsonl --current_ids_dir article_pairs"
-        ),
-        f"/snap/bin/gsutil -m cp id_mapping.jsonl gs://{bucket}/{gcs_folder}/tmp/",
-        f"/snap/bin/gsutil -m cp simhash_results/* gs://{bucket}/{gcs_folder}/simhash_results/",
-        f"/snap/bin/gsutil -m cp new_simhash_indexes/* gs://{bucket}/{gcs_folder}/simhash_indexes/",
-    ]
-    ids_vm_script = " && ".join(ids_script_sequence)
-
     create_cset_ids = BashOperator(
         task_id="create_cset_ids",
-        bash_command=f'gcloud compute ssh jm3312@{gce_resource_id} --zone {gce_zone} --command "{ids_vm_script}"',
+        bash_command=f'gcloud compute ssh jm3312@{gce_resource_id} --zone {gce_zone} --command "bash run_ids_scripts.sh &> log &"',
     )
 
     wait_for_cset_ids = GCSObjectExistenceSensor(
diff --git a/push_to_airflow.sh b/push_to_airflow.sh
index b15fa86..6e5e6ad 100755
--- a/push_to_airflow.sh
+++ b/push_to_airflow.sh
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ gsutil rm -r gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/schemas/*
 gsutil cp schemas/* gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/schemas/
 gsutil rm -r gs://us-east1-production-cc2-202-b42a7a54-bucket/dags/schemas/article_linkage/*
 gsutil -m cp schemas/* gs://us-east1-production-cc2-202-b42a7a54-bucket/dags/schemas/article_linkage/
-gsutil cp utils/create_merge_ids.py gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/vm_scripts/
-gsutil cp utils/run_simhash.py gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/vm_scripts/
-gsutil cp utils/my_simhash.py gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/vm_scripts/
+gsutil cp utils/* gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/vm_scripts/
 gsutil cp utils/article_linkage_lid_dataflow_requirements.txt gs://us-east1-production-cc2-202-b42a7a54-bucket/dags/requirements/article_linkage_lid_dataflow_requirements.txt
 gsutil cp utils/article_linkage_text_clean_requirements.txt gs://us-east1-production-cc2-202-b42a7a54-bucket/dags/requirements/article_linkage_text_clean_requirements.txt
 gsutil cp utils/clean_corpus.py gs://us-east1-production-cc2-202-b42a7a54-bucket/dags/linkage_scripts/
diff --git a/sql/arxiv_id_match.sql b/sql/arxiv_id_match.sql
index 5291f15..0d7e43b 100644
--- a/sql/arxiv_id_match.sql
+++ b/sql/arxiv_id_match.sql
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 -- on arxiv where possible
 WITH arxiv_pwc_mapping AS (
   SELECT
-    gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.id AS id1,
-    papers_with_code.papers_with_abstracts.paper_url AS id2
+    arxiv_metadata_latest.id AS id1,
+    papers_with_abstracts.paper_url AS id2
   FROM
     gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest
   INNER JOIN
     papers_with_code.papers_with_abstracts
-    ON gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.id = papers_with_code.papers_with_abstracts.arxiv_id
+    ON arxiv_metadata_latest.id = papers_with_abstracts.arxiv_id
 )
 
 SELECT
diff --git a/sql/arxiv_metadata.sql b/sql/arxiv_metadata.sql
index 5a73675..b27dff8 100644
--- a/sql/arxiv_metadata.sql
+++ b/sql/arxiv_metadata.sql
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 -- get arxiv metadata used for matching
 SELECT
-  gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.id,
-  gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.title,
-  gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.abstract,
-  lower(gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.doi) AS clean_doi,
-  extract(YEAR FROM gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.created) AS year,
+  arxiv_metadata_latest.id,
+  arxiv_metadata_latest.title,
+  arxiv_metadata_latest.abstract,
+  lower(arxiv_metadata_latest.doi) AS clean_doi,
+  extract(YEAR FROM arxiv_metadata_latest.created) AS year,
   a.last_names,
   NULL AS references  --noqa: L029
 FROM gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest
 LEFT JOIN
   {{ staging_dataset }}.arxiv_authors AS a
-  ON a.id = gcp_cset_arxiv_metadata.arxiv_metadata_latest.id
+  ON a.id = arxiv_metadata_latest.id
diff --git a/utils/run_ids_scripts.sh b/utils/run_ids_scripts.sh
index ba7c2b3..3af086a 100644
--- a/utils/run_ids_scripts.sh
+++ b/utils/run_ids_scripts.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+cd /mnt/disks/data/run
 python3 create_merge_ids.py --match_dir usable_ids --prev_id_mapping_dir prev_id_mapping --merge_file id_mapping.jsonl --current_ids_dir article_pairs
 /snap/bin/gsutil -m cp id_mapping.jsonl gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/tmp/
 /snap/bin/gsutil -m cp simhash_results/* gs://airflow-data-exchange/article_linkage/simhash_results/
diff --git a/utils/run_simhash_scripts.sh b/utils/run_simhash_scripts.sh
index f7c0924..78db4a3 100644
--- a/utils/run_simhash_scripts.sh
+++ b/utils/run_simhash_scripts.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+cd /mnt/disks/data/run
 python3 run_simhash.py simhash_input simhash_results --simhash_indexes simhash_indexes --new_simhash_indexes new_simhash_indexes
 cp -r article_pairs usable_ids
 cp simhash_results/* article_pairs/