diff --git a/maintainers/team-list.nix b/maintainers/team-list.nix
index 61a40c13ac3b..196120190c5c 100644
--- a/maintainers/team-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/team-list.nix
@@ -816,11 +816,14 @@ with lib.maintainers;
     shortName = "Mercury Employees";
   };
 
+  # same as https://github.com/orgs/NixOS/teams/nix-team
   nix = {
     members = [
       eelco
-      grahamc
-      pierron
+      mic92
+      tomberek
+      roberth
+      ericson2314
     ];
     scope = "Maintain the Nix package manager.";
     shortName = "Nix/nix-cli ecosystem";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/common.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/common.nix
index bfecf16919dc..e3273381633a 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/common.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 , hash ? null
 , src ? fetchFromGitHub { owner = "NixOS"; repo = "nix"; rev = version; inherit hash; }
 , patches ? [ ]
-, maintainers ? with lib.maintainers; [ eelco lovesegfault artturin ]
+, maintainers ? lib.teams.nix.members ++ [ lib.maintainers.lovesegfault lib.maintainers.artturin ]
 , self_attribute_name
 }@args:
 assert (hash == null) -> (src != null);