I've replied to the post on the forum, but if this is the default way Jupyter runs then we're going to have to figure something out longer-term. Calling the Django ORM from an async thread just isn't safe...
Using django in a notebook is definitely not a typical use case so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Ideally the ORM would be a standalone package that could be used outside of the web server context. (I know sqlalchemy is an option but then you lose all of the benefits of django)
