diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index db4e5501b289..22f662fc3a0b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ select = [
     "E", # pycodestyle Error
     "F", # Pyflakes
     "W", # pycodestyle Warning
+    # Most refurb rules are in preview and can be opinionated,
+    # consider them individually as they come out of preview (last check: 0.8.4)
+    "FURB105", # Unnecessary empty string passed to `print`
+    "FURB129", # Instead of calling `readlines()`, iterate over file object directly
+    "FURB136", # Replace `if` expression with `{min_max}` call
+    "FURB167", # Use of regular expression alias `re.{}`
+    "FURB168", # Prefer `is` operator over `isinstance` to check if an object is `None`
+    "FURB169", # Compare the identities of `{object}` and None instead of their respective types
+    "FURB177", # Prefer `Path.cwd()` over `Path().resolve()` for current-directory lookups
+    "FURB187", # Use of assignment of `reversed` on list `{name}`
     # PYI: only enable rules that have autofixes and that we always want to fix (even manually),
     # avoids duplicate # noqa with flake8-pyi and flake8-noqa flagging `PYI` codes
     # See https://github.com/plinss/flake8-noqa/issues/22
diff --git a/scripts/create_baseline_stubs.py b/scripts/create_baseline_stubs.py
index 69f5d2b307e3..46de29b026c7 100755
--- a/scripts/create_baseline_stubs.py
+++ b/scripts/create_baseline_stubs.py
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ def main() -> None:
     info = get_installed_package_info(project)
     if info is None:
         print(f'Error: "{project}" is not installed', file=sys.stderr)
-        print("", file=sys.stderr)
+        print(file=sys.stderr)
         print(f'Suggestion: Run "python3 -m pip install {project}" and try again', file=sys.stderr)
         sys.exit(1)
     project, version = info