diff --git a/weave_query/requirements.legacy.txt b/weave_query/requirements.legacy.txt
index 1b761cee89c8..0cb9be4996aa 100644
--- a/weave_query/requirements.legacy.txt
+++ b/weave_query/requirements.legacy.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ aiohttp>=3.8.3
 aiofiles>=22.1.0
 aioprocessing>=2.0.1
 Werkzeug>=3.0.3  # CVE 2024-34069
-janus>=1.0.0
+janus==1.0.0 # 1.2.0 breaks ThreadQueue unit tests and possibly ThreadQueue
 
 # we use this for logger, could probably skip it
 python-json-logger>=2.0.4
diff --git a/weave_query/tests/test_async_queue.py b/weave_query/tests/test_async_queue.py
index 321c6e9d1cdb..e5e8d145a389 100644
--- a/weave_query/tests/test_async_queue.py
+++ b/weave_query/tests/test_async_queue.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import asyncio
 import threading
-from typing import Optional
 
 import aioprocessing
 import pytest
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ async def process_producer(queue: Queue) -> None:
     await asyncio.wait(tasks)
 
 
-def process_consumer(queue: Queue, loop: Optional[asyncio.AbstractEventLoop] = None) -> None:
+def process_consumer(queue: Queue) -> None:
     async def _consume():
         for _ in range(3):
             if isinstance(queue, ThreadQueue):
@@ -28,10 +27,7 @@ async def _consume():
             print(f"Consumer: {item}", flush=True)
             queue.task_done()
 
-    if isinstance(queue, ThreadQueue):
-        asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(_consume(), loop).result()
-    else:
-        asyncio.run(_consume())
+    asyncio.run(_consume())
 
 
 @pytest.mark.timeout(10)
@@ -52,10 +48,9 @@ async def test_async_process_queue_shared() -> None:
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_async_thread_queue_shared() -> None:
     queue: Queue = ThreadQueue()
-    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
-    consumer_thread = threading.Thread(target=process_consumer, args=(queue, loop))
+    consumer_thread = threading.Thread(target=process_consumer, args=(queue,))
     consumer_thread.start()
 
     await process_producer(queue)
     queue.join()
-    consumer_thread.join()
\ No newline at end of file
+    consumer_thread.join()